PC Backup Script?

[Bart Haezeleer]

>Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:14:04 -0800
>From: Richard L Johnson <Richard.L.Johnson at aero.org>
>To: samba at samba.anu.edu.au
>Subject: PC Backup Script?
>Message-ID:
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>
>I am trying to setup my Sun running samba 1.9.18p10 so that it can 
>backup my dept's PCs.  I can get it to work manually using the 
>smbclient command with no problem.  What I would like to do is have
>a script that is able to take a list of PCs, determine if a PC is online,
>backup that PC, then move on to the next one.  If a PC is down,
>it can report an error to the admin to state that the backup was not
>performed.  Does anybody out there have anything that might
>be able to help me out?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
Some time ago I wrote some perl scripts to something similar.
The scripts make use of smbmount/smbumount.
If interrested I send them over.