time to do the heavy lifting

• Once a remote directory is mounted, there are several methods available to actually copy data:

  • cp -av /mnt/smb/* /backup/winhost/
  • tar -cvzf /backup/tarball /mnt/smb/
  • rsync -av /mnt/smb/ /backup/winhost/ (note trailing /)

• Make sure backup device is faster than the source and/or network (optical media especially)

Notes: