pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) (03/27/91)
I'd like to automate Managing Your Money backups for my wife in the following way. After exiting, she starts a program that would do pkzip %1 *.db *.ark while <there is NOT enough room on the floppy in A:> echo "Put a new floppy disk in A:" copy %1 A: %1 is the name of the archive file and should be automatically created from today's date. I'm not an MSDOS programmer but I could probably hack something in Turbo C is someone would point out: a) how to create a file whose name is based on the date b) check file size c) check room remaining on a floppy disk. Thanks, Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91
cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) (04/16/91)
Sorry if you see this request twice. A moderator appears to
have swallowed up the last message I sent.
We need a good backup program that will allow us to back up our Macs
and IBM PCs to our Sun (or to a VAX running VMS) over ethernet. Most
of the Macs come in through Gatorboxes. We would prefer to back up
directly to the Sun's tape drive if possible. We have been trying out
Retrospect Remote, but their own rep told us not to try to go to a
non-Mac server because it's too slow. Does anyone know of anything
faster?
Thanks - Susan
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