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- From: larry@eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
- Subject: Re: Alpha, OSF and backups...??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.215820.16017@eco.twg.com>
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- Sender: larry@vishnu.eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
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- Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
- References: <1993Jan11.164121.28097@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:58:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.164121.28097@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, beutel@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Jim Beutel) writes:
- |>For years VMS backup has been an excellent tool for doing
- |>backups. (may not have been perfect) Comparing it to Anything
- |>available on the Unix platforms was impossible. Their are no
- |>production quality backup products on present Unix systems.
- |>
- |>My question is:
- |>Any of the OSF folks out thier have any info as to a solution
- |>to backups on Alpha / OSF....?
- |>
- |>Tar, Dump, CPIO, etc just dont cut it in a multi vendor production
- |>environment.
- |>
- |>Thanks,
- |>Jim
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- Jim,
- Why don't you try NFS mounting your file systems via an NFS client from
- VMS and then use backup ? There are at least two good clients out there for
- VMS..
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- -Larry.
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