rsync Samba and Windoz

[Scott.Prive at storigen.com (Scott Prive)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:41 PM
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> Subject: rsync Samba and Windoz
> 
> 
[snip]
> Does anyone know of a tool (couild be client/server) that I 
> could use from 
> Linux to essentially wake up a sleeping Windows system

Is it *required* that you wake up the system from Linux? Or do you just want to keep the box from sleeping during backups (and this is the current approach)?

With Cygwin on the box (I should read ahead before replying to a thread :-), you could just schedule a bash script on the *Windows* side, that pushes the data over. 

Cygwin has a cron daemon you can enable, if for some reason the native NT scheduling thing (whatever it's called) does not do the trick.

Once the NT side is running, the data throughput should keep it from sleeping. If not, I'm sure there's another workaround.

Another option to chase: Amanda backup has been ported to NT. Not sure how mature it is, but it almost certainly still lags the native UNIX version. Here you go: http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/

-Scott

, and 
> keep it from 
> going back to sleep until the rsync is done. (I could write 
> one, but I no 
> longer have a Windows C compiler to write the client side). Another 
> solution is to turn off energy star altogether. 
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