Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Mac backup solutions
From: Tony Stuckey (stuckey@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 15:00:41 EDT
> 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?
ARCserve is one option. I'm not sure that they have a server that
would run on your net, but they definitely have clients.
http://www.cheyenne.com/Product-Info/Datasheets/14100.html#tech
Retrospect will also back up to a Storageset which is a file. This
could be targeted at a shared area from the Linux box which is then backed
up to tape locally. Kinda gross, and gives you a lot of network traffic
and is a poor use of disk space, but ...
We use Retrospect to a local Mac tape drive. We've had some
problems with it not detecting clients and with it dropping connections to
a client in the middle of a backup, leaving it unfinished. It's pretty
easy to re-run an individual client when this happens, though.
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