I think he meant that you can use the cheap disk space to temporarily store the backups before the are written to tape by the windows box (or whatever that box usually does with them). >>> RWARE at INTERPLASTIC.COM 05/22/03 01:02PM >>> > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) [SMTP:zibby+tclug at ringworld.org] > For minimal software on the windows server, use Putty's pscp in a > scheduled job (if you're planning on automation anyway). Yes, you'll have > two scheduled jobs, but less software to monkey around with. ... > Soultions: Disk spack is cheap. Your Linux server(s) and Windows > server(s) have plenty of extra disk space. So, you use tar to create a > backup tar file, move tar file to Windows via Samba or SCP and you don't > have to purchase or setup extra software or hardware. > I did this all the time at a former place of employment. I skipped scp and > using up disk space on the Linux machines and just dumped the tar file > directly to a windows share that was automounted by automount. That doesn't account for backups taken offsite for storage, also it is hard to do many days of backup to a hard drive if you have any amount of data at all. Tapes was, is and are the best solution usually. Not the cheapest, but the best. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list