On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Stephen Hilton wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:41:07 +0000 (GMT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on > > a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? > > > > Setup a Samba server on the FreeBSD box, then use the native > windows backup tools to backup to the Samba share. Archive > backups on the FreeBSD/Samba machine to tape/CDRW etc... with > tar. If file compression is enabled in the windows backup > utility then avoid using compression in your tar command as > you will waste a lot of CPU power for very little compression. This seems to be the simpliest method, because I already have got a running Samba Server. I can do a backup of C: besides some files which are locked because they are in use. Before I try a crash test: How could I do a restore - assuming the worst case: C: is completely deleted? Do I have to boot the Win2k CD-ROM?
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