[windows2000] Re: back up scripts for remote locations

  • From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:11:21 -0800

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thethin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

| Just wondering if anybody has done anything similar to what we are looking
| to do.
|
| We have a main location with a Windows 2000 server running a DLT backup.
| We would like to zip and/or compress the data files from  remote sites and
| then transfer the data to the main location to ensure backup.
|
| We would like to do this without any user intervention.
|
| What my initial thought was to zip the files and ftp them to main
| location.  But, I didn't know if winzip had any command line capabilities.
| The dos zip would work, except I will lose the long filenames (I am
| pretty sure).
|
| Any other ideas or recommendations ...

How about gzip for windows?

http://www.gzip.org/

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Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service

"He who laughs last probably made a back-up." --Murphy's Seventh law of
computing
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