I've done something similar in the past to back up the Music directory on my Linux based server (which I use to run SqueezeCenter) to the external USB drive connected to my Windows desktop.
1. Share the folder from your Windows machine. 2. Mount this to your Linux box mount.cifs //192.168.0.10/Slimserver /homerdrive/Slimserver -o user=nolan 3. Perform the rsync. The --delete flag also replicates deletions from the source. rsync -ar /home2/Slimserver/* /homerdrive/Slimserver --modify-window=10 --delete --progress 192.168.0.10 is my Windows machine and /homerdrive/Slimserver is the mount point for the Windows share I have created on my Linux machine. I'm doing something sightly different now as I bought a 1TB WD Netbook (as sold by PC World for £150) which after a few simple hacks turns into a tiny Linux server so my Windows box isn't involved any more but this backup method worked fine when I was doing it. -- nolan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nolan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7440 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46883
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