Topic: Backup to NFS share

[Brenno]

Hey all,

I have an AIX machine on my network with a nightly tape backup.  I'd like to be able to backup my /home/e-smith/files/users directory to this AIX machine so it can be included in the nightly backup.  So far, I've had no luck doing this through the backup2ws contrib.

Since the AIX box runs NFS and does not have Samba on it (nor can it have Samba on it for technical reasons,) is there anything special I need to do to be able to accomplish this?

I was thinking I could mount a share on the AIX machine when my SME 5.6 box boots, and then use backup2ws and simply specify /mnt/aixbox as the destination.  Can you specify a local directory for the backup, or does it have to be a network share like //network/share?

Any thoughts on this before I attempt?  Has anyone else done this?

Thanks in advance!

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[adrianball]

Never done this on SME server, but you could just use a one-liner and put it in cron - e.g.
cd /home/e-smith/files/users; find . -print | cpio -pdm /mnt/aixbox
Even better, install rsync on the AIX box and use that instead.