[Samba] copy a large volume of data from PC to samba server

[Bob Crandell]

Hi,
I guess I responded directly to you.  Sorry, I meant to respond to the list.

I was under the impression you had mounted the PC drive.  One way to mount it is:
mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //computer/share /mnt/point

Then /dir1 = /mnt/point.  Of course, if /mnt/point is made available through Samba,
then you can use Windoze Explorer.

I hope this helps.

Tian-xiong Lu (tianl at agrecon.canberra.edu.au) wrote*:
>
>Hi, thanks.
>
>but /dir1 is on the PC. How can I cd to there on a samba server (UNIX)?
>
>Tian.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Crandell" <bob at assuredcomp.com>
>To: "Tian-xiong Lu" <tianl at agrecon.canberra.edu.au>
>Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 12:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [Samba] copy a large volume of data from PC to samba server
>
>
>> A friend of mine wrote this for me:
>> (cd /dir1; tar cf - .) | (cd /dir2; tar xfp -)
>> Where dir1 is the source and dir2 is your destination.  This was written
>to protect
>> permissions on Linux drives but should do the job for you.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> Tian-xiong Lu (tianl at agrecon.canberra.edu.au) wrote*:
>> >
>> >Hi there,
>> >
>> >Is there someone over there knows a method or script
>> >that can copy a large volume of data (in folders) from PCs
>> >to a samba server (suppose there is enough space there)?
>> >
>> >I know using smbclient or smbtar can backup data on PCs
>> >to samba server, but it is written in tar files.I wonder whether
>> >this method can handle a large folder, say, in 10GB size.
>> >
>> >Also, using smbclient with mget and recurse on, one can
>> >copy folders from PC to samba server. But in doing so,
>> >it is in interactive mode and keeps asking yes/no to continue.
>> >Is there a way to get rid of these prompts?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Tian.
>> >
>> >
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