Revisiting a topic that I brought up at the end of March... I need to back up a laptop (WIN98SE) that will not be attached to the network during normal Amanda backup hours. Thus, I call it transient. It goes home, and might not be back at regular intervals. The solution that I'm going to go with is generally: A) script that the user runs that backs up his laptop to a network drive B) backup that network drive using Amanda as usual Some thoughts/issues: *) Fulls are done Mondays, incrementals otherwise. Use smbclient thusly: [ fulls ] smbclient //pc/home -A credentials -d0 -Tcqa - | tar fxv - [ incrementals ] smbclient //pc/home -A credentials -d0 -Tcqag - | tar fxv - This gets me the full directory structure and NOT a tarball. Thoughts? *) On some larger schedule, I wipe everything and do a full. Some feedback would be appreciated. Mark -- http://www.mchang.org/ http://decss.zoy.org/
