[ALUG] Backup solutions for "not very linux" server destinations

[Wayne Stallwood]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 15:20 +0000, Chris G wrote:

> So I suspect I need a backup solution which packs up the files to be
> backed up into some sort of archive file and then just copies that
> file across to the server.  Does anyone here use  a backup solution of
> this sort and/or know any good ones?
> 

Could you not tar to a file within the samba mounted directory, perhaps
cobble together some script that maintains x number of cycles worth of
archives and then purges them ? I used to do something similar many
moons ago to archive some servers on a regular basis and it was
relatively easy to put something together that kept 2 weeks worth of
archives and mailed me when there was a problem etc.