francis@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) (07/26/90)
I'm looking for helpful suggestions as to my back-up options. We've got a few hundred Macs, and a few hundred Suns, Suns on Ethernet, Macs connected in by several Fastpaths. I'm looking for a way to back up my Mac servers (data being most important -- I can reconstruct the server folder simply enough) using our existing equipment. The possibilities that I am presently aware of would include: 1) Dumping the contents of the servers to a Unix box through ftp or through AppleShare (oh, yeah, we've got three Gator boxes and are running KIP, plus at least part of CAP). 2) Directly accessing the Exabyte tape drives? 3) Getting A/UX and using it to copy Mac volumes to a tape somehow? I'm not sure if any of this makes sense; would my best bet be to suggest getting NetStream/JetStream, and handling things that way? Or is there some relatively simple way to get tape back-ups onto our Unix machines? Heck, i'm willing to suggest Network Diskfit and a Syquest cartridge hard drive. Right now, I'd just like to know what you people out there are doing to back up your 80+ meg HD's, especially if you use a connected Unix network in the process. Thanks in advance. -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu