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Article #61Re: Backup info for RT Wanted
From: Eric Pearce
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1989 05:27
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1989 05:27
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I recently got GNU tar running on our Silicon Graphics machines (They run a SysV with BSD extensions). I imagine I could get it going on the AIX RT's without too much trouble. It supports the BSD "rmt" remote magtape interface, multiple volumes, full and incremental backups and restores and labels your tape. Plus you can run it on practically any Unix machine, so you can read any backup on any machine. Most non-BSD Unix implementations come with their own pet backup program that is totally incompatible with any other vendor's. SGI has "BRU", AIX has "backup", etc. When you have more than 50 diskfull machines to backup, you want to provide a common interface for operators, the ability to do remote backups and restores, and be able to use more than a single tape drive in case of hardware or network failure. -e -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Pearce eap@bu-it.bu.edu Boston University Information Technology 111 Cummington Street Boston MA 02215 617-353-2780 voice 617-353-6260 fax
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!eap From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Backup info for RT Wanted Message-ID: <33254@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 18 Jun 89 05:27:00 GMT References: <12237@well.UUCP> <3030@portia.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: eap@bu-it.bu.edu (Eric Pearce) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Organization: BD&HR (Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers) Lines: 25