[Samba] Backup

[Nathan Lutchansky]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Szilard wrote:
> Hello,
> anyone knows how to back up a unix/linux box to w2k ?
> On the unix/linux box samba runs, but the w2k backup 
> wants to follow the softlinks. So it runs into infinite cycles.
> Is there a way to avoid this?

On the Unix box, use tar to make an archive of everything you want to back 
up.  Then use the Win2k box to archive the tar file.  -Nathan

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