mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) (02/10/90)
Does there exist a product that will back up a Mac/OS disk across a TCP/IP ethernet network to a UNIX system (tape or disk)? I will even settle for VMS instead of UNIX. I am not interested in any sort of file sharing product like TOPS or NFS, just the ability to back up a few Mac's which have local disks and are connected to our LAN. And we are running NCSA Telnet, so I know that I can use ftp to get individual files, but I want something equivalent to doing a local tape backup (and restore). Please email your responses. I usually do not read this newsgroup. Mark -- Mark Benard Department of Computer Science INTERNET & BITNET: mb@cs.tulane.edu Tulane University USENET: rex!mb New Orleans, LA 70118
meldal@ithink.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) (02/10/90)
In article <2144@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes: >Does there exist a product that will back up a Mac/OS disk across a TCP/IP >ethernet network to a UNIX system (tape or disk)? I will even settle for VMS >instead of UNIX. Here is how I do it: I have a 300 MByte WrenIV, and have partitioned it into 4 "disks", one of which I use for backup. First I made a complete backup, and ftp'ed that to a UNIX host where its backup system took over. Thereafter, every night RetroSpect automatically archives the changes of the day to an archive on the backup partition. Later in the night a UNIX shellscript automatically ftp's to my mac (using NCSA telnet as ftp server software), and fetches the backup file, using macbinary representation. If you want to (I do not) you can then ftp an empty file to the mac, thereby essentially deleting the archive file. The UNIX backup system then again automatically does its thing. The whole thing is fully automatic, I have a backup no more than 24 hours old of my most important documents, and I am told if things go wrong (the UNIX program sends me mail). The ftp server is password protected, so only the script (or anybody breaking into the UNIX box and getting the password from a protected directory there) can access my mac files. Prerequisites: NCSA telnet (free), RetroSpect (or other archiving utility, preferably with autolaunch), enough free space on your disk to handle the archive files. If you have little free space then you archive only pieces of your file structure at a time, e.g. out of my 300MByte I keep 80MByte available at all times, and back up my partitions in chunks of less than 80MBytes (Sundays: Programs, Wednesdays: System stuff, every day except these: Documents). -- Sigurd Sigurd Meldal Associate Professor Electrical Engineering Stanford University Hard mail: ERL 456 | Internet: meldal@anna.stanford.edu Computer Systems Lab.| Stanford University | BitNet: meldal%anna.stanford.edu@forsythe.bitnet Stanford CA 94305 | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!anna!meldal USA | phone: +1 415 723 6027 fax: +1 415 725 7398