Re: [cobalt-users] BackUp to nt from Qube 2

[Malcolm McLeary <mim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob,

on 29/5/00 2:52 AM, Bob at boblee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am wondering is there is another way.
> 
> I see in the admin view, that you can backup to a windows machine, where a
> password is all thats necessary, but what about to my NT Server ?   where
> the username and password are required.
>
> What username does the Cobalt Qube use when accessing an NT network,   ?
> can this be configured. ?  or is Samba, still too early in development to
> allow a Linux box to write directly to an NTFS System ?

I use the scheduled backup feature to backup Qube2 config files to a share
on a NT machine ... the required syntax does use both username and password.
You will need to create an appropriate account on the NT machine to allow
access.

The Qube2 Admin GUI for Scheduled Backups requires a "location" and
"password" ... the syntax for "location" is;

    user@\\windowspc\share

To do regular scheduled backups of the important stuff (i.e. data) I use
Retrospect Backup for Windows on an NT machine and configure it to backup
the SAMBA shares.

Have a look at;

    http://www.betterbackup.com/

    http://www.dantz.com/

Don't even think about using the Qube2 Scheduled Backup capability for a
robust reliable backup strategy.

Cheers,  Malcolm

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