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List:       linux-dump-users
Subject:    [Dump-users] FYI: rmt on Windows
From:       Kenneth Porter <shiva () sewingwitch ! com>
Date:       2004-06-21 1:32:40
Message-ID: 79461D4DD1DE3710DED3BB52 () [10 ! 0 ! 0 ! 4]
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In a discussion about backing up to a Windows box over SMB:

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Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:29 PM -0500
From: John Thompson <john@os2.dhs.org>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: backup

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:01:12 -0700
Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com> wrote:

> --On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:18 PM -0700 Ow Mun Heng
> <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> wrote:
>
> > I can only think that you want Linux to Windows because your backup
> > server/software is windows based?
>
> That's what I do, because the tape drive is on the Windows box and
> AFAIK no one has ported rmt to Windows.

"Star"
(http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/privat
e/star.html) includes an rmt implementation and builds fine in cygwin.

> So I run dump to a
> Samba-mounted Windows share every night with cron. Those interested in
> this solution should jump on the dump mailing list.

Dump/restore in interactive mode can be very handy.



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-John (john@os2.dhs.org)


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