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- From: matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy)
- Subject: Re: backing up a networked mac
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:20:18 GMT
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- In article <jcn.727461276@helix>, jcn@rice.edu () wrote:
- >
- > This may not be the proper place for this question, but here goes.
- >
- > We have several macs that are networked and I would like to know if
- > there is an available program to back up specific ones onto 8mm tape,
- > as if the volume were mounted on the unix side of the network.
- >
- > Currently we have a backup program that does ALL macs, but I am
- > interested in doing specific ones only.
- >
- > thanks
- >
-
- Is your tape drive connected to a Mac or to an SGI? In a mixed
- MAC/SGI setting, one way to do it is to put the tape drive on
- a MAC and use Retrospect/Retrospect Remote backup software, an
- *excellent* product. Then use NFS/Share on the MAC that has the
- tape drive to mount the SGI's hard drive on the MAC's desktop.
- Retrospect can back up from anything mounted on a MAC desktop.
-
- If the tape is on the SGI then you'll have to use UNIX backup
- software of some kind, and use CAP (Columbia Appletalk Package)
- to let the SGI speak AppleTalk. I prefer having the tape drive
- on a MAC because Retrospect beats any UNIX program I've seen
- for user interface and flexibility.
-
- Of course, in case of a real major crash, you should have a
- backup of the root partition from your SGI that can be restored
- locally--you cannot talk to the MACs until you get the system
- and the network software running.
-
- Matt Healy
- "I pretend to be a network administrator;
- the lab net pretends to work"
-
- matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu
-