<quote who="Amanda Wynne">
> It all works fine, except for the weekly full backup of the other
> Windows(ME) machine. It runs for about 10 minutes, then appears to die.
> The .tgz file is incomplete. When I go to shut down the windows machine,
> it warns that my MDK machine is still connected. The last line of the
> script is to unmount this machine, so it's obviously never getting there.
>
> Is this a network time-out problem? If so, any suggestions on how to get
> around it?
You might want to look into smbtar(1) as a simpler/saner method of doing
this. It's a lot easier to use it than to worry about mounting. :-) Then,
once you have the tar files, you can just scp them to their final
destination.
- Jeff
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