[Samba] Re: Backup from Linux onto Win2K-share

Dragan Krnic
2003-11-26T13:12:15Z

|> I have a Windows-2000-domain with ten W2K servers. One of the
|> servers is my backup server which has a share for each of the
|> other servers where they can put their database-backups. As
|> well I have a Linux box running a database; it also has to put
|> its database backup to a share (named above).
|>
|> A few words on my database: I'm running SAP DB 7.3. It has the
|> option to backup the database either on a tape or on into a
|> file. If using "file-backup" this file can be anywhere on the
|> linux, either in the local file system or in NFS or in SAMBA.
|> SAP DB does not care on that as long as it can use a mount.

Can you give your SAP DB backup program name of a pipe file
as destination? Then you can read from that pipe through a
decent "rsh" or "rexec" from W2K.