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Article #5374Sharing a common BACKUP device with UNIX nodes.....
From: William S. Sinclair
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 00:58
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 00:58
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Is there an arrangement similar to Local Area Vax Clustering for UNIX devices,in particular DECstation 3100's? We have 4 or 5 of the little nippers, each with 330 MB of local disk space. We would like to buy a single file backup device, then have all of them share it, so that a nightly backup of all the UNIX nodes can be done with a minimum of headaches. Assuming that node #1 has the backup device on it, then nodes #2, #3, #4, etc. would then be NFS servers in turn, where node #1 is the client. But that seems like a cumbersome arrangement. Maybe something more reliable is possible. I know that SUN networks can do it; they use the EXABYTE video cartridges, but I don't know about DECstations.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!elroy!usc!aero!sinclair From: sinclair@aerospace.aero.org (William S. Sinclair) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Sharing a common BACKUP device with UNIX nodes..... Message-ID: <51509@aerospace.AERO.ORG> Date: 18 May 89 00:58:56 GMT Reply-To: sinclair@aero.UUCP (William S. Sinclair) Distribution: usa Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA Lines: 10