Subject: [netatalk-admins] Mac backup solutions
From: Brian Bothwell (brbothwe@cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 14:05:23 EDT
Today my boss put me in charge of coming up with a robust, convenient,
yet affordable backup solution for the nine Macs, and 6 NT/95 machines in
our office. After laughing to myself for a bit, I figured the vast pool of
knowledge on this list might be able to help. :)
Since we are purchasing a new server soon (which will run RedHat 5.1) and
are planning to get a SCSI DAT 4mm backup drive for it, I would like to
find some way of using this drive to backup the Macs with using Netatalk.
I suggested having all Mac users put all files they wanted backed up into
folder(s) that are Netatalk-shared from the Linux server, then just doing
standard nightly backups (with weekly full dumps). However, he said he
wants to have a system in which the Mac users can automatically back up
their entire system (sans the Applications which we have on CD-ROM and can
be easily re-installed)
I have looked at Retrospect
(http://www.dantz.com/dantz_products/rnbk.html), which looks like an
option but that would mean I would have to administer the backups from one
of the Macs (not a big deal, but I would prefer to do it from the Linux
server) I was thinking I could hook up the tape drive to the Linux box,
share it via Netatalk, then backup to it using Retrospect. Retrospect
does full NT and Win95 backups as well.
Has anyone set up any backup solutions like this? What other ways might I
go about this?
Thanx,
-Brian
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