Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Mac backup solutions
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 15:32:08 EDT
I know that somebody is working on an AFP client for Linux. It has been
available for quite some time but still needs some more work before it
will be ready for real use. The program is called AFPFS. When it gets to
the right point, you could write a script to automatically copy over all
of your files.
BTW, the Samba package will allow you to do the same thing for Windoze.
Good luck.
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Brian Bothwell wrote:
> 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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