At 10 Sep 2002 14:09:16 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > If the mount fails, the root filesystem on the server fills as the > backup proceeds to /mnt/remotedisk. Aarrrgh.
you might also want to consider something like (untested, blah, blah): tar zcf - /local/path/to/backup | smbclient -c 'put - mybackup.tgz' (you'll probably need some user, password, etc options to smbclient too) this has the benefit of not needing to run as root (to mount anything), and the user-space smbclient is much safer on the kernel than the kernel-space smbfs. (if you want to go the full perl/smb route, you might want to check CPAN (http://search.cpan.org); i'm sure i've seen some smbclient wrapper modules there somewhere. they should make error checking, etc much easier too) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
