merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant) (01/13/88)
Does anyone know of a way to back-up an entire Novell network (logins and
directory permissions included) onto tape? I'm looking for an entirely
painless and very easy means of doing this (ie, put in a tape, press a
button, wait 20 minutes, there's your backup.)
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"Don' wanna see you again tonight..." Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)
P.S. -- By the way, anyone heard any good rumour mongering on Novell's
networking products for the Macintosh?gof@crash.cts.com (Jerry Fountain) (01/15/88)
In article <7916@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant) writes: >Does anyone know of a way to back-up an entire Novell network (logins and >directory permissions included) onto tape? I'm looking for an entirely >painless and very easy means of doing this (ie, put in a tape, press a >button, wait 20 minutes, there's your backup.) >--- >"Don' wanna see you again tonight..." Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP) > > >P.S. -- By the way, anyone heard any good rumour mongering on Novell's > networking products for the Macintosh? All you really need is a tape system that knows how to deal with Novell's "special files." We are currently using an Emerald 60 Meg tape system with their ASP software. I have gone through several backup/restore sessions and it works fine. The only thing I noticed that it did not retain was the file owner attribute (it was changed to whomever did the restore). The only catch is that the person backing the system up must have SUPERVISOR privleges in order to back up the logins/permissions. All in all I am very satisfied. Emerald is located in San Diego and the 60M unit runs about $2K. You may also want to look at their VAST backup system which has a 2Gig capacity if your network storage is very large. Usual disclamers. Just a satisfied customer, not a share holder. -- -----Jerry Fountain----- UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd,sdcsvax,nosc}!crash!pnet01!gof ARPA: crash!gof@nosc.mil MAIL: 523 Glen Oaks Dr., Alpine, Calif. 92001 INET: gof@pnet01.CTS.COM
mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Samuel Wilson) (01/16/88)
In article <2369@crash.cts.com> gof@crash.CTS.COM (Jerry Fountain) writes: >In article <7916@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant) writes: >>Does anyone know of a way to back-up an entire Novell network (logins and >>directory permissions included) onto tape? I'm looking for an entirely >>painless and very easy means of doing this (ie, put in a tape, press a >>button, wait 20 minutes, there's your backup.) >>--- We use a Mountain 60 or 120 meg on two systems, and I use the following batch files to do backups without having to sit there. Weekly does a complete backup, overwriting what was on the tape before. Daily does an incremental backup (only modified files) and appends the data to the end of the tape. Weekly.bat map I:=sys:\ tape_sbk i:\ /s/a/c/P-s/P-r/p-i Daily.bat map I:=sys:\ tape_sbk i:\ /s/m/a/c/P-s/P-r/p-i -- Samuel Wilson ..ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mobo mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences