Aaron Thank you so much. I didn't know this was an option of "mount". I couldn't get it to work at first....my stupidity, but after reading the man pages and googling it, I got it to work. Again, thank you VERY much. Steve -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bliss Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:51 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Backup Windows server to Linux server Yes, you can mount (mount -t cifs) the windows box to a mount point, then just copy the data to the mount point. Aaron Steven Buehler wrote: > I have a client that I do backups for. They had a Snap server (linux) and I > was using rsync to connect to it from a RedHat Linux server to run scripts > and do the backups. Now they are switching to a Windows server and still > want me to do the backups. I know that linux can be setup as a Samba server > but was wondering if it can be done the other way around so that the linux > server can connect to the Windows server and act as if the windows server is > another drive. Or is there a way to rsync into the windows server? > > Thanks > Steve > > -- Aaron Bliss Systems Administrator Suny Brockport 585-395-2417 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
