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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de!loch.in-brb.de!redfalls.in-brb.de!bluesprings.in-brb.de!bluesprings.in-brb.de!not-for-mail From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sharing a tape drive Date: 11 Jan 1996 05:50:49 GMT Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4d28fp$dqv@bluesprings.in-brb.de> References: <DKMppn.FGH.E.fourthgen@fourthgen.fourthgen.com> <4cva7p$59c@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bluesprings.in-brb.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : : We use the Samba server for backup of Windows95 on several : boxes by putting a symlink to the tape device in one of the : Samba shares (as an FS client, the link is evaluated locally, : unlike NFS, which is not a direct client). : : Then we use 'tar' in a DOS shell to the shared device. It : works fine, both for backup and restore. Does TAR understand long filenames from W95? Can you overwrite ALL Files while W95 is running? If yes, well ... this would be my backup-solution :) Lars.