Back up a Windows box w/o Samba?
Here's the deal. Dad has two boxes. His computer, a WinME box, and Mom's new
computer, which is running Debian Sarge. She's learning how to use a
computer for the very first time, and learning Linux from day one. Kinda
cool. :)
He wants to back up about 10 MB of stuff to her computer periodically.
The trouble is Samba. I started setting that up, and it didn't take long
before I got sick to my stomach. I know it can be done because I've done it
before, but it just sucks. Everything about networking with Windows is
retarded.
So since they don't really need to share files or resources in any meaningful
way, I'm thinking there has to be a way that's easier for me to accomplish
this.
I'm thinking a (Cygwin) bash script on the Windows box to rsync (or something)
his files. It needs to be able to grab everything. I haven't thought it all
the way through, and I'm looking for clever ideas.
Basically anything I could run on Cygwin and then wrap up in such a fashion
that Dad can click on and icon and have the process happen by magic. Better
still if I can get Cygwin to mail me (locally, or via SMTP) to let me know
how it's going.
If I can't cook this up with Cygwin, plan B is to try to do my own hacked up
Knoppix type thing so he can put a CD in the drive, boot it, make the backup,
then have the CD eject itself and reboot. Cygwin is probably less trouble.
Both of these are far preferable to figuring out all that Samba nonsense
again.
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Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <dmmcintyr@users.sourceforge.net>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
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