malc@tahoe.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) (10/11/89)
It looks as if we will soon have a number of MS-DOS PC's attached to our TCP/IP network here, and there is some interest in backing up these PC's onto a central, networked tape drive or drives. My questions: - Are there any packages allowing full and incremental backups/restores of MS-DOS machines over a TCP/IP network to a tape drive - on a remote Unix system ? - on a remote MS-DOS system ? I'd be interested in both recommendations and experiences regarding such software (if it exists...) I will summarize email responses to the net. I would also be interested in hearing any folkore regarding doing such things over Novell networks, etc. Thanks in advance, Malcolm L. Carlock malc@unrvax.unr.edu uunet!unrvax!malc
hubert@cosmo.UUCP (Hubert Hahn) (10/12/89)
Hello netland, the simplest way to do a PC backup to a remote unix machine is via PC-NFS (distribud by SUN Microsystems). On the Unix machine you should also run NFS and the rest is only mounting a directory from the unix machine which will be identified as a normal disk drive by the PC. For backing up the PC you can use the normal PC-DOS backup/restore programs. Sharing of printers (a printer connected to the unix machine i is visible to the PC) is also possible. best regards Hubert Hahn Auf der Reide 20a D-4000 Duesseldorf 30 West Germany
les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (10/12/89)
In article <3029@tahoe.unr.edu> malc@tahoe.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) writes: >It looks as if we will soon have a number of MS-DOS PC's attached to our >TCP/IP network here, and there is some interest in backing up these PC's >onto a central, networked tape drive or drives. My questions: >I would also be interested in hearing any folkore regarding doing such >things over Novell networks, etc. I just tried something that I didn't expect to work using AT&T's starlan DOS server. I made a link from /dev/rmt/c0s0 (a 125M streaming tape in a 386 unix server) to a file named "tape" in my home directory which is linked as drive H: to a PC on the network. From the PC, I used GNUtar (compiled for DOS) and from drive C: (local hard disk) executed: tar cvf h:tape . and it actually created a tape that I could read back under dos or unix. Amazing... and I was just about to waste a month or so cobbling up some kind of netbios<->tli connection to do exactly that. Les Mikesell
dab@asylum.SF.CA.US (Dave Bridgham) (10/13/89)
FTP's PC/TCP also provides a way to backup PC's over the net. If your unix machine is a berkeley derivative (i.e. has rexec or rsh and rmt) then you can backup directly to a tape (or file) using the tar program. It also can do a form of incremental backup. The incremental backup was supposed to be patterned after unix's backup/restore, but I didn't understand fully and it's a little different. Quite usable, but potentially confusing to people who are used to unix. David Bridgham
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (10/16/89)
Date: 13 Oct 89 05:16:48 GMT From: Dave Bridgham <oli-stl!asylum!dab@decwrl.dec.com> FTP's PC/TCP also provides a way to backup PC's over the net. If your unix machine is a berkeley derivative (i.e. has rexec or rsh and rmt) then you can backup directly to a tape (or file) using the tar program. It also can do a form of incremental backup. The incremental backup was supposed to be patterned after unix's backup/restore, but I didn't understand fully and it's a little different. It used to be a little different, but as of 2.04, Stev fixed TAR (one line of code) to be exactly like Unix. James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901