Doc wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
>
> > > Windows can mount linux drives via Samba. Just use your favorite windows
> > > backup program to back up to a file on the linux machine. I currently back
> > > up two of my windows machines to the third in this manner.
> > >
> > > Eric
> >
> > But I only have ONE machine with windows. Grrrr
>
> And this is a problem?! Seriously, I think Eric meant he backs two
> Windows machines up to one Linux machine.
> I don't like Windows Backup at all. I tend to go at that backwards; I
> use smbmount to mount shared Windows drives to the Linux box and back
> that up with tar. Just don't use the samba smbtar utility. It's a
> little faster than glacial migration.
>
>
I meant I don't have a LINUX box. Just %$%! windows. When I did use
linux,
I tend to tar the whole HD to a zip disk. This way if I needed to change
HD's
it was easy. But alas Linux (debian) does not boot from floppies any
more, thus rendering it almost as useless as M$.
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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Received on Fri Apr 05 2002 - 12:51:03 BST