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- From: pczip@mips.Berkeley.EDU (Ivan Powis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Backup to DAT over net
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.170942.11576@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:09:42 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.nott.ac.uk
- Reply-To: pczip@mips.Berkeley.EDU (Ivan Powis)
- Organization: Nottingham University
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- We recently installed several hp9000/700's which are all networked together
- along with a single DAT drive. One question we asked all suppliers, including
- hp , was "can you run a backup over the net?". They all said yes. However,
- having chosen hp, I now find its not so simple. Using fbackup and traversing
- nfs mounts to get at files on the remote systems (ie not having the DAT drive)
- isn't adequate, because the superuser protection applied by NFS stops me
- accessing remote files that don't have general access permission. So using
- NFS to get at the remote file sytems isn't the answer.
-
- How do you go about this? At the moment we're having to physically carry the DAT
- drive around from machine to machine. This surely isn't the way it has to be done
- is it?
-
- Ivan Powis
-