linux backup to external drive
 

Does anyone know if there is a way to backups to an external hard drive. The script I am running is on a linux box, but the external drive is on an XP machine. I want to be able to run the backup and have the tar files saved to the external hard drive.

Code I am using is as follows:

#!/bin/bash
#This script is to be used to backup to disk directories that
#may be scattered around a network on Microsoft Shares.
#Written by: Dennis Williams
#Date: June 18, 2004
#
#--------------Environment variables for protocaselaptop--------------------
#
#this is the administrator account on the windows machines
USERNAME1=administrator
PASSWORD1=administrator_password
#
#---the place you want to do the backup to
#
#DRIVE=/some/path/to/directory
DRIVE=//laptop/backup/backup ###This is where I try to save
#
#
#You will need to create more of these sections,
#one for each machine that you wish to do a backup of
#TARGET_MACHINE and BACKUP_SHARE are the names
#of the target machine and the shared directory
#
#TARGET_MACHINE=machine_name
#BACKUP_SHARE=share_name
#
TARGET_MACHINE=Protocaselaptop
#BACKUP_SHARE=outlook
#
mkdir $DRIVE/$TARGET_MACHINE
cd $DRIVE/$TARGET_MACHINE
#
smbclient //$TARGET_MACHINE/Outlook $PASSWORD1 -U $USERNAME1 -c "recurse;prompt;mget *;"
#
tar cvpz $DRIVE/$TARGET_MACHINE > $DRIVE/$TARGET_MACHINE.tar.gz
rm -rf $DRIVE/$TARGET_MACHINE
#
#You will be left with a file called protocaselaptop.tar.gz
#located in the /root/backup/target_machine directory you specified in the $DRIVE variable
#

Cheers,

dennis