ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac) (11/30/88)
Thinking Machines has a couple of dozen Macs scattered through the
building, all on an AppleTalk network with a Kinetics gateway to our
Ethernet. Each Mac has at least a twenty-meg disk, some have forty
meg disks. A couple have really large (>300meg) disks. None of them
are backed up as regularly as they deserve.
If your Mac situation has even the slightest resemblance to this, I'd
like to hear how you're handling backups and what you'd rather do if
you could do it all over again. What backup medium do you use? What
hardware? What software? What procedures? Does it work smoothly?
Is it a real pain? Have you ever actually had to recover things from
backup? Did it work?
Please e-mail me responses if you can. I'll try to digest your
collective wisdom and post a summary. If we actually implement a
comprehensive backup system, I'll let y'all know how it turns out.
Thanks in advance,
Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put
into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"