> I'm working with someone who has a situation reversed from > what I am accustomed, a single Solaris system that needs > to be backed up to a PC network. > > The Solaris system has no tape unit. The PC side has a > good amount of network shared storage and is backed up > to tape regularly. So it seems to me that I need to > get each Solaris backup to a single disk file (maybe > with the 'file:driver') which will then be transfered > to the shared network storage (how, samba? some other > tool?) > > Has anyone done something along these lines and can > offer suggestions or alternative ideas?
You could ftp a single file to the PC (e.g. using perl and net::ftp is easy). Of course you would need IIS or something that provided an ftp server. This might be less effort than getting samba going. Jim
