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Title: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: Adam on March 14, 2002, 01:43:40 AM

Hello there,

I am wondering if there's an easy way to automate our backup. I would like to backup to desktop each night to our Win2K server - any ideas ?

cheers,

Adam

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: guestHH on March 14, 2002, 02:55:36 AM

Hi,

How about a cron job?

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: Adam on March 14, 2002, 03:53:05 AM

Thanks for that,

I'm a bit of a novice with Linux - could you perhaps guide me in the right direction to getting this completed.

Maybe someone out there has already done this ?

cheers,

Adam

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: stephen noble on March 14, 2002, 04:43:37 AM

> Maybe someone out there has already done this ?

there is a contrib howto that goes half way to what you want

i'm going to write a panel that will do exactly this
plus give the ability to exclude certain ibays
it will run nightly or on command

it'll be two weeks before i get to it

regards
stephen noble
dungog.net/sme

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: guestHH on March 14, 2002, 10:24:51 AM

So better wait for Stephen then. ok?

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: Adam on March 14, 2002, 01:34:08 PM

Well if there's no easier way then I s'pose so.

regards,

Adam

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: guestHH on March 14, 2002, 01:44:23 PM

Or you can take a look at Unison here:

http://www.ifost.org.au/~peterw/

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: Filippo Carletti on March 14, 2002, 01:48:30 PM

Search the devinfo mailing list archive, I sent there a message with a script attached, last month.
If you can't find it, write me an email and I'll send it to you.

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: Adam on March 14, 2002, 01:56:49 PM

Thanks Fillipo,

exactly what I'm after.

cheers,

Adam

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: Des Dougan on March 14, 2002, 06:32:59 PM

See http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/flexbackup-to-disk-howto.htm. I believe this will do what you're after. It includes a small section on using cron.

If you have questions about it let me know (I'm the author).


Des Dougan

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: Adam on March 15, 2002, 01:56:00 AM

Thanks Des,

will this procedure be the same for SME 5.1.2 ? Hope so, I'll try and get it going tonight.

cheers,

Adam

Title: Re: Is there a way to automate the Backup to Desktop
Post by: Maarten on March 18, 2002, 12:53:26 AM

stephen noble wrote:
>
>
> > Maybe someone out there has already done this ?
>
> there is a contrib howto that goes half way to what you want
>
> i'm going to write a panel that will do exactly this
> plus give the ability to exclude certain ibays
> it will run nightly or on command
>
> it'll be two weeks before i get to it
>
> regards
> stephen noble
> dungog.net/sme

That would be great...