js7k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Aaron Senn) (11/08/89)
I'm interested in how people are doing Mac backups in a nominally-trained
user environment. For instance we have 20+ Macs that we backup nightly
using the CAP stuff (slightly hacked) running on a SUN workstation to
schedule/spool full and incremental backups over appletalk.
The backups run primarily without user intervention.
We're probably going to double our population of Macs in the near future,
and users are tending toward larger disks every day...so I'm trying to
evaluate our options.
If anyone is using Mac networking products for UNIX/VMS/MAC or has information
I would appreciate some e-mail...Ideally I'm interested in systems that
allow remote scheduling of at least 2 levels (e.g. full...incremental)
of Mac backups.
I'm especially interested in any VMS appletalk implementations.
-Jas
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Jeff Senn Arpa: Senn@Psy.cmu.edu
Research/Systems Programmer
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon (412) CMU-SKY1alistair@minster.york.ac.uk (11/14/89)
I have seen a couple of requests for information on network backing up of macs in this group recently. I reply here for several reasons: 1. Email to one of the enquirers keeps bouncing. 2. The information may be of more general interest. 3. I have lost the address of the person who helped me - and whom I would like to thank. Somebody (see 3) kindly responded to a request of mine on this topic by sending me MacDumper. This is a PD package of Mac and Unix software to do backups (including incrementals) over a net. It took me a while to get it to work - but that was mainly my own stupidity. It's a bit large to post, so people might want to contacts its authors, at Bolt, Beranek & Newman - sorry they don't give an address. Whoever it was that sent it to me - THANKS! Alistair Edwards | Janet: alistair@uk.ac.york.minster Department of Computer Science | phone: (UK) (0904) 432775 University of York | (international) +44 904 432775 Heslington, York | England YO1 5DD |