Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc!ccadfa!usage!basser!metro!bunyip!moondance!steven From: steven@batserver.cs.uq.oz (Rm 303 Phone 3973) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: backups Keywords: backups file restores Message-ID: <1623@moondance.cs.uq.oz> Date: 28 Sep 89 01:21:43 GMT Sender: news@moondance.cs.uq.oz Reply-To: steven@batserver.cs.uq.oz Lines: 26 At the University of Queensland, we have 7 DN3500 Apollo Workstations (4 of which are disked) running sr10.1 in a bsd environment. We would like to back these up over the network to a remote host (which happens to be a Sun) with a 9 track tape drive. What we are looking for is a backup utility (other than wbak) which will be able to do full and incremental backups of our disks. Apollo's OmniBack product does not allow for the tape host to be a non-Apollo machine and thus is not usefull in this instance. The 'tar | rsh host dd' system does not handle multiple tapes and requires a breakdown of the file system. It also does not cope well with incremental backups since it cannot handle deletions. Does anyone know of, or use a system for backups (commercial or inhouse) that would work well in this type of environment. Thanks in advance. Steven __ Steven Widmayer Asst Systems Programmer University of Queensland. steven@batserver.uq.cs.oz Better to burn out than fade away.