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From: steven@batserver.cs.uq.oz (Rm 303  Phone 3973)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: backups
Keywords: backups file restores
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Date: 28 Sep 89 01:21:43 GMT
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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 

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Steven Widmayer      Asst Systems Programmer    University of Queensland.
steven@batserver.uq.cs.oz

Better to burn out than fade away.