> I'm working with someone who has a situation reversed from
> what I am accustomed, a single Solaris system that needs
> to be backed up to a PC network.
>
> The Solaris system has no tape unit.  The PC side has a
> good amount of network shared storage and is backed up
> to tape regularly.  So it seems to me that I need to
> get each Solaris backup to a single disk file (maybe
> with the 'file:driver') which will then be transfered
> to the shared network storage (how, samba? some other
> tool?)
>
> Has anyone done something along these lines and can
> offer suggestions or alternative ideas?

You could ftp a single file to the PC (e.g. using perl and net::ftp is
easy). Of course you would need IIS or something that provided an ftp
server.

This might be less effort than getting samba going.

Jim