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From: sbnicol@rose.waterloo.edu (Scott Nicol)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Backing up a PC over a network?
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Date: 4 Mar 90 15:22:05 GMT
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In article <9756@portia.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
>
>    I want to back up my PC's hard disk to a networked Unix machine.  I
>have Stanford's PC/IP package, and a Western Digital W8003E ethernet card.
>Is there an easy way to do this?  Is there a better way than the brute
>force approach - creating a directory tree on the Unix machine matching
>that on my hard disk, and piping a list of all files on the hard drive
>through FTP in either direction?  Are there any public domain utilities
>for handling this?  I'll eventually be putting the files out to tape from
>the Unix machine.
>
> -David Hinds
>  dhinds@popserver.stanford.edu

   Do you have rcp?  try:

	rcp -r c:\*.* username@machine:c

   The "-r" means do a recursive copy of all subdirectories under the
current directory that match the file specification.  This would place
the entire contents of your c drive (except for hidden files), in a structure
identical to the one on your hard disk, in the directory "c" in
"username@machine"'s home directory.

- Scott