Re: running backup
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:34:51 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 13:56:39 +0800, Jon Miller wrote:
> >> I have a file that I want to run daily to backup data.
> >>This tgz file then needs to be copied to a Windows 2003 server.
> >>I'm using smbclient, but it does not seem to work thru the script.
> >>Can someone point out where the problem lies. I run this as a
> >>cron job as follows:
> >> 30 19 * * 1,2,3,4,5 root /root/rubybackup.sh
> >>
> >> The script is as follows:
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> # script to automate the backup of the Ruby server to the W2K3 server
> >> #
> >> DAY=`date +'%a-%d-%m-%y'`
> >> BACKUPDIR=/backup
> >> RUBYLIVE=/var/lib/mysql/
> >>
> >> cd $RUBYLIVE
> >> tar -czvf /backup/rubylive${DAY}.tgz ./rubylive
> >>
> >> cd $BACKUPDIR
> >> smbclient //server/backup tfc651800 -U administrator
> >> put rubylive${DAY}.tgz
> >
> > The recommended procedure for smbclient in scripts is to use the -c
> > option for the command string. In your case that would probably be
> > something like
> >
> > smbclient //server/backup tfc651800 -U administrator -c "put rubylive${DAY}.tgz; exit"
> >
> > Is it really necessary to use the administrator account for pushing a
> > backup file to the server?
>
> Windows has functional non-Administrator accounts?????? :\
Oops, my bad. Can we all pretend that it was a rhetorical question?
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Regards,
Florian
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