archiving to a windows machine

MasterCephus · 03-03-2005, 10:55 AM

I want to make a backup of a directory on my linux box (running TSL 2.2) onto one of my windows machines.

Someone told me that I could use tar to do this, but I am unsure of the command to use.

would it be something like:

tar /data -cZ \\laptop\backup

where c = create new and Z = compress

Would this work?

Matir · 03-03-2005, 12:10 PM

Unlike windows, you cannot use \\machine\share syntax under linux. You would need to either use smbclient or mount the share prior to the tar operation.

MasterCephus · 03-03-2005, 01:49 PM

can you go a little in depth about how to use smbclient?

Matir · 03-03-2005, 03:53 PM

Well, smbclient can be used like a command line ftp program (I've done this to write a PHP front end to a samba file server). Mounting the remote samba share (using smbmount/mount -t smbfs) is likely to be simpler and still accomplish all that you need.