Script to copy automatically a folder stored in a windows machine

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I have some data that must be stored inside a windows computer in order to allow the program that uses it to work.

That data must be copied in the backups.

I only have a tape device on the main linux server.

How would you solve that?

Being able to copy the data from the source windows xp machine to the destination linux server?

I need something that can be put inside a script and that doesn't need me to introduce manually the password in each operation. I want to execute that script automatically before executing the backup process (I already know how to execute that in that specific moment) and therefore it must be unattended.

Any idea?

As always thank you in advance! :thumbsup:

Posted 4-Jan-12 5:47am

Joan M

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Graham Breach · Answer 1 · 2012-01-04T06:52:00

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Tricky... I think I would share the Windows folder and mount it on the linux server using smbfs or cifs, maybe mounting and unmounting it before and after. In fact, I think I probably have done something like that in the past when I had to back up PCs to a FreeBSD server.

Here's a link that might help: http://linux.die.net/man/8/smbmount[^]

Posted 4-Jan-12 6:52am

Graham Breach

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fjdiewornncalwe 4-Jan-12 14:34pm

Sounds right. I was thinking that having the directory as a share would be the solution as well.

Wendelius · Answer 2 · 2012-01-04T07:24:00

Could you use for example Samba to share a directory from the Linux box and copy the necessary data using that share? The copying could be perhaps automated at windows side using AT or Scheduled tasks. At the Unix server perhaps scheduling the actual backup script using crontab. Links:
- Samba[^]
- cron[^]