mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell) (10/05/89)
I'm interested in hearing what schemes people use for backing up clusters of workstations (in my case Sun 386i's and SPARC's). Is 'tar' normally used for this? Is there any problem with running the backup as an overnight 'cron' job? Are there any common script files or other utilities for this purpose? -- Bo Jackson on traffic in Los Angeles: | Mark Mitchell Georgia Tech "I live 5 minutes from the supermarket, | GTRI/STL/MSD Atlanta, GA but it takes me half an hour to get there."| mm42@prism.gatech.edu
demon@thor.wright.edu (Brett Kottman) (10/06/89)
From article <2293@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell): > I'm interested in hearing what schemes people use for backing up clusters > of workstations (in my case Sun 386i's and SPARC's). Is 'tar' normally > used for this? Is there any problem with running the backup as an > overnight 'cron' job? Are there any common script files or other utilities > for this purpose? > I used to use SNAP on the 386i machine(s) but it caused more problems than it solved. :) So I went to tar (or bar is ok). If you want to make it an overnight, make sure it will only take one cartridge or the computer will be waiting (for another cartridge) until you get to it. This is not a nice condition to be in if a power failure occurs.