Re: Wild backup idea

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

Article #10528

Back to comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Previous Next

#10528

From: Terje Johansen,o90b
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:38

25 lines
1337 bytes

In article <Michel.Davidoff.161.0@sonoma.edu>, Michel.Davidoff@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff) writes:

>We are considering/thinking about this wild idea.
>
>We have a network of PC's on Ethernet and Localtalk.
>We'd like to "Backup" those machines to our Cyber.
>Sorry but no flame (We have no money).
>We are thinking about FTPing users Hard disks during the night.
>Any ideas/input expiernce would be helpful.
>The average Hard disk size is 30 MB.
>
>Thank You
>Michel Davidoff
>E-Mail Michel.Davidoff@Sonoma.edu

Depends of how many pc's you got.
But anyway, you dont want to backup the ENTIRE disks, do you?
There's a program in dos 5.0 called BACKUP. Use this to copy off
the user directories, and ftp them.

-- 
Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.

Bury me deep. The next generations will be hungry.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Nov19.113853.3146W@viper.edb.tih.no>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!humpty.edb.tih.no!blazer.edb.tih.no!terjej

References: <Michel.Davidoff.161.0@sonoma.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!humpty.edb.tih.no!blazer.edb.tih.no!terjej
From: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
Subject: Re: Wild backup idea
Message-ID: <1992Nov19.113853.3146W@viper.edb.tih.no>
Sender: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
References: <Michel.Davidoff.161.0@sonoma.edu>
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:38:45 GMT
Lines: 25

Reply to Parent Message