backup question

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Darryl Hoar wrote:

> I have a Freebsd 5.1-release box with samba installed, configured and
> working.
>
> On my network I have an NT 4 server (can't change this right now).  It has
> a share on it called publications.
>
> I would like to synchronize (in one direction) the files from the
> publication share to the Freebsd box.  So, when I synchronized, any
> changes on the publications share are copied to the freebsd box, but
> NEVER the other way.

Use mount_smbfs to mount the publications share read-only on the FreeBSD
system.  Then use rsync -a to copy it to your backup location.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA