[TriLUG] rh-9.0 docs cd

[Jon Carnes]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 09:40, Jim Ray wrote:
> you know how robocopy works in winders?  is there a linux flavor?  i'd like to script the backup of data if possible.  it would be nice to do some kinda grep thingie to verify which files were copied and which files have problems with spaces in the file names or whatever.

You might want to run an "at" job on your proprietary box that runs a
nightly zip, and then pushes the zipped up files out to the samba share.
>  
> i'm not sure about the proper syntax yet would like to do something along the lines of the following:
>  
> cp smb://winders/share ..
>  
> however, that command does not like me at all.

Take a look at smbtar.  I've used it for similar circumstances and it
does a nice job.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes