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In a message dated Wed 18 Nov 92 18:08, Michel.davidoff@sonoma.edu (michel 
wrote:

 M> We are considering/thinking about this wild idea.

 M> We have a network of PC's on Ethernet and Localtalk.
 M> We'd like to "Backup" those machines to our Cyber.
 M> Sorry but no flame (We have no money).
 M> We are thinking about FTPing users Hard disks during the night.
 M> Any ideas/input expiernce would be helpful.
 M> The average Hard disk size is 30 MB.

Are you then going to leave all the machines on 24 hours a day, every day
so people don't have to remember when to not shut their machine down?  Or
are you going to physically send someone around to make sure the machines
to be backed up didn't accidently get turned off on backup day (night) for
that machine?

The specific users who won't cooperate with more typical backup schemes are
no more reliable with procedures like you have listed.  Sorry to sound
pessimistic, but this is a block I've been around - and you will end up
having to do one of the above (by the way, EMail doesn't work - when people
are done for the day, they go on automatic and worry about getting home,
not about the EMail they got an hour or so earlier).


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