freeman@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Jay Freeman) (02/23/88)
I am confused. Suppose I have a well-equipped Mac II, whose configuration includes (a) the current release of A/UX, (b) an Apple 40 MByte SCSI tape backup unit (with the software that came with it -- I think that's version 1.1 of the tape backup program) and (c) Macintosh System Software 5.0. Now, can someone provide a simple "yes" or "no" answer to the following question: Given this configuration of goodies, is there *any* way to back up A/UX to 40 MByte tape cartridges? I think I understand that one cannot back up A/UX to the tape drive from A/UX itself, but how about from the finder? For example, can I back up the A/UX partition as a single lump, using the "Backup Volume" feature of the tape backup program? (This might not work in two ways; it might be that the A/UX partition is some different kind of volume that won't back up the regular way, or it might be that the tape backup program can't cope with a single volume too big to fit on one 40 MByte tape cartridge.) I hope someone from Apple will spell out for the network precisely what tape backup capability for A/UX is available with present Apple hardware and software. Phil Ronzone, are you listening? -- Jay Freeman
buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian) (02/24/88)
Yes you can backup A/UX from the Finder. I have done it twice. I just tell the Tape Backup Application that I want all of the partitions backed up, and it does it. In my case it took three tapes and a ;long time, but everything worked fine. I just wish Apple had provided a way to do incremetal backup(tar, dump, cpio) so I wouldn't have to do the whole thing over again. -- Mahboud Zabetian buzz@phoenix.princeton.edu 183 Little Hall (609) 520-1271 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (609) 734-7760 ****** Anyone need a soon-to-graduate hardware/software engineer? ********