lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (Chris Lishka (King Arthur's roommate) ) (05/02/90)
I have received some requests to post this information, and there were some people who I couldn't reach through email. Therefore, I am posting this to the net. [ Note: if you request replies by email, *PLEASE* put your addresses at the end of the message (where the .signature usually is). Most of the people who requested information did not do this, and I had a "real fun time" trying to decode mail paths from combinations of the "From:" and "Received-By:" lines. In a few cases, I could not reach the person because the internet address in the From: line could not be reached. ] My organization is currently looking into the PC/TCP package from FTP Software. Judging from the literature that FTP Software sent to us, it is a comprehensive system that provides UNIX network utilities for IBM PC's and clones. These network tools include: ftp, rcp, telnet, rlogin, smtp, mail (which "closely resembles the Berkeley UNIX Mail program"), lpr, rsh, rexec, rmt (like "mt"), bootp (automatic boot-time configuraton from a network server), host, ping, finger, and a version of tar that will run over the network and will also allow for incremental saves. In addition, an NFS driver called "InterDrive" is available that will allow PC's to transparently access files on a remote UNIX server. There is also a Development Kit available to roll-your-own programs, and FTP Software can be contacted about access to source code as well. All in all, it looks like a really nice package. (By the way, I have no affiliation whatsoever with FTP Software, and have only arrived at these impressions from reading their promotional literature). Here are "brief" summaries of the information I received: * FTP Software sells a product called PC/TCP which comes with an implementation of TAR that use Berkeley rmt and rsh (or rexec) protocol to backup files over a TCP/IP network to UNIX machine. The TAR program has extensions to do incremental dumps as well as the common options. Backups using the MS-DOS archive bit were also in the works (and may be finished by now). The address of FTP Software is: FTP Software Inc. Voice: (617) 246-0900 26 Princess St. FAX: (617) 246-0901 Wakefield, MA 01880 * Dan Tappan, at BBN Corporate Copmuter Resource Center, has written software that "backs up a Mac via a Kinetics FastPath bridge to a Unix machine running CAP." * Terry Slatery (tcs@brl.mil) is/was working on a package called BUMP that migrates files on and off a filesystem to tape (I am not sure if this is over a network or not). * MultiStream Systems Inc. has a product that runs on Hyperchannel (at least for VAX's and IBM's) in Feb. 1988. They also were planning to add TCP/IP support (maybe it is finished now?). Their address is: MultiStream Systems Inc. Dense Yegge P.O. Box 497 Excelsior, Minnesota 55331 * Unitech has a network backup program, but it is only for UNIX boxes. * Bjorn Satdeva (bjorn@sysadm.sysadmin.COM) has shell scripts for doing network archives, but only work with UNIX boxes. The scripts use cpio and compress for the arcives, and remote shells for data transfer and execution. * "Sun's PC/NFS with the extra ``lifeline'' package supports doing PC backups to a central server." * Russ Nelson "has modified Phil Karn's NOS so that it will fetch TAR files." It looks for the string /tar/ in a filename, and all files below it get fetched. Mr. Nelson can be reached at nelson@image.soe.clarkson.edu. I hope this helps. Feel free to contact me if you have any more questions. .oO Chris Oo. -- Christopher Lishka 608-262-4485 "Dad, don't give in to mob mentality!" Wisconsin State Lab. of Hygiene -- Bart Simpson lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu "I'm not, Son. I'm jumping on the bandwagon." uunet!uwvax!uwslh!lishka -- Homer Simpson