Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!prism!sun13!sun13.scri.fsu.edu!hudgens From: hudgens@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: PC -> Unix backups??? Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 90 17:18:56 GMT Sender: hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu Distribution: na Organization: SCRI, Florida State University Lines: 20 Does anyone know an easy way to do a backup of dos filesystems to a UNIX host using redistributable software like the Clarkson packet drivers, NCSA telnet, etc. Something like PCNFS would make this fairly easy, but it's not cheap. My current thoughts are to use a ftp-driver program on the unix side, which connects to the PC via ftp, walks the dos file system, extracts each file it finds in turn, tars it to an archive (using append mode), and then deletes it from the UNIX side. Not pretty, but it might work. Someone posted a perl program recently which does a good portion of the above. Does anyone know of a free (or very cheap) way to do something like this easily? -- Disclaimer: I didn't do it. Jim Hudgens Supercomputer Computations Research Institute hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu