Subject: [netatalk-admins] Re: How does everyone backup Macs
From: Graham Moore (grahamm@solid-state-logic.com)
Date: Wed Oct 08 1997 - 05:27:32 EDT
Hi,
You may want to grab a copy of this weeks Network Week Mag, it has a
complete article on Retrospect as a backup system for the Mac. I use it to
backup about 30 powerbooks each lunchtime and an incremental backup of
every desktop every night. Works fine for me.
Cheers
Graham
>I'm looking for a software solution to back up
>several client macintoshes connected to my Linux-based
>NetAtalk server.
>
>I have a DLT drive attached to the NetAtalk box, and
>was thinking there are two, possibly three possibilities:
>
>1) one could turn on file sharing on the macs and mount
>their drives onto the unix box and just use BRU or tar to
>back up the data. This is cheap, but relatively insecure.
>
>2) (I don't think this is possible but) one could somehow
>share the scsi tape device through NetAtalk, and have each
>mac write an archive to it.
>
>3) we could buy disk storage which amounts to the number of
>gigabytes on all of the macintosh clients, and put it on the
>server. each night, the macs would copy all of their important
>files (via applescript) to the server volume, and at a pre-
>determined time, BRU or tar would write all that data to tape.
>
>
>How is everyone else handling such a scenario?
>
>Regards,
>
>Nick
>
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