Re: NT/Win95/Solaris/Linux/Freebsd Backups to Linux (fwd)

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyone know if there are any packages that allow the backing up of
> NTFS/FAT32/FAT16 drives to a Linux .dat tape? I am looking for some sort
> of package that handles the NT FS specifics so I can backup my NT 4
> server my Win95 box my Sparc5 and my Linux and FreeBSD machine to one 10
> gig dat tape. If you know of any solutions I would entertain anything.
> The freebsd/solaris boxes were easy to backup with a few cron jobs and
> some ufsdump/scp jobs. BUT the 95/NT might be trickier to preserve the
> FS attributes.....Thanke in advance


I'm in the same boat as you.  smbmount will let you backup the files of the NT
box,  but you loose all the security settings (which make it pretty useless for
a production server).  The only thing I can find is www.arkeia.com,  it's
commercial,  but I'll probably end up going with it.

It pisses me off to have to PAY to backup a supposedly "Enterprise" OS.  I just
expected NT Backup to support remote tape drives.  If you can find source to an
NT backup program I think I would be ablt to implement the "rmt" protocol.

I have a 20Gb DLT, a 2.3Gb 8mm, and a 150Mb 1/4 inch cart. drive,  all attached
to an RS/6000 with AIX 4.2  and I can backup any of my Linux boxes right out of
the box.  Backing up Win95 with smbtar works good too,  as FAT32 doesn't really
have any filesystem attributes.