Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!dpz From: dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu (David Paul Zimmerman) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: PC -> Unix backups??? Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 02:33:03 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers University DIMACS Lines: 36 hudgens@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) writes: >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. I'm working on a scheme to do weekly backups of my administrative PCs' data. Pros: It's simple and will be cheap to implement. Cons: it uses 1:1 disk space. I'm only interested in backing up the data that they create locally, so I'm configuring all of their programs to write data in a C:\DATA directory tree. Once a week, they will run a script (actually, they will click on an Windows 3.0 icon that runs a script) called BACKUP.BAT. BACKUP.BAT uses a freely available TAR.EXE (part of a PAX package that came over comp.binaries.ibm.pc many moons ago grasshopper) to "tar" up C:\DATA into C:\BACKUP\BACKUP.TAR (or some such name). BACKUP.BAT then calls KA9Q, configured to use the packet driver (I use the SLIP, NI5210, and NI9210 PDs), with an AUTOEXEC.NET script that includes the line "start ftp". This starts the KA9Q FTP server. The PC then sits there all night and waits for an incoming FTP connection (using permissions that I've set up in the KA9Q FTPUSERS file). That much I have finished. My next task in this project is to set things up on a Unix box to pick up the tar file in the wee hours of the morning. With a batch FTP script (using "bftp", from USC), that should be trivial. All of this should ultimately cost me a total of nothing. David -- David Paul Zimmerman dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu Systems Programmer rutgers!dpz Rutgers Univ Center for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)