tape backup of network

[allan grossman [ms-mvp]]

Hi, john -

The easiest way would be to map a network drive. You'd
need to share the XP drive and them map it on the Win98
machine by launching Windows Explorer and selecting
Tools --> Map Network Drive. You should be able to use
your backup software to configure the backup then.

hth -

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a new machine with XP on MS peer-peer network.
My
>bakup method uses 8 GB Travan tape backup with MSBackup
in
>a Windows 98 machine. How do I access and backup the XP
>machines' files from the Win98 machine?
>
>.
>

[Bob Willard]

allan grossman [ms-mvp] wrote:
> Hi, john -
>
> The easiest way would be to map a network drive. You'd
> need to share the XP drive and them map it on the Win98
> machine by launching Windows Explorer and selecting
> Tools --> Map Network Drive. You should be able to use
> your backup software to configure the backup then.
>
> hth -
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have a new machine with XP on MS peer-peer network.
>
> My
>
>>bakup method uses 8 GB Travan tape backup with MSBackup
>
> in
>
>>a Windows 98 machine. How do I access and backup the XP
>>machines' files from the Win98 machine?
>>
>>.
>>
>

Uh, that works OK for data files and some executables, but it
will not work reliably for all system files since (for one reason)
there is no mechanism for the W9x OS to tell the XP OS to quiesce
its filesystem or to snapshot its registry.

If you don't want to put a backup device directly on the XP PC, then
one (ugly but cheap) alternative is to run NTBACKUP on the XP PC to
create a backup file on the XP PC, and then write that file to the
tape (such as by mapping a net drive from the W9x PC to the folder
on the XP PC which contains the backup file).
--
Cheers, Bob