bring up tape drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:22:21PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 3/21/06, Phillip Qin <Phillip.Qin-szgMhqSEIEG+XT7JhA+gdA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hmmm. Off topic, is there software on Windows that can remotely backup Linux
> > server?
> 
> Given "remote", a number of options become obvious:
> 
> 1.  File copying across ssh - e.g. - rsync, Unison
> 2.  File copying via some distributed filesystem such as NFS (not so
> Windows-compatible) or CIFS (Samba, anyone???)

I guess as long as you don't need to save the permissions or ownership
or anything else, that could work.  Otherwise generating tar files and
copying those over might be better.

Len Sorensen
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