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Hi,

I have a Thirdwave DAT drive for my network backup.  I was planning on using the  
drive to back up my net (as it always has in the past) and then use a product  
called NFS/SHARE from intercon. Corp. to mount the NeXT's NFS volume on my  
Macintosh and back it up also.  There is a problem in that I need to be the  
owner of everything in order to back things up.  Since it would be kind of hard  
to do that, I decided to use NIS so that I would only have to be a member of the  
group and have the files allow group access.  Unfortunately, NeXT does not fully  
impliment NIS as a server (it works great as a client) so I could not access  
multiple groups at the same time.  I then wrote a script that would change  
/etc/exports to contain "anon=0" for approx 30 seconds (just lo0ng enough to log  
in as root from my mac) and then it would change it back to it's semi-secure  
state.  Guess what,  it still logs me in as -2.  Oh well.

Now that you have a case history I can tell you what I am going to do.  The NeXT  
has to be backed up every night night but so does my network.  What I would like  
to do is just take the DAT and attach it to the NeXT (I have the proper cable),  
do a back up, and then hook it back up to my Mac.

I am not very famillar with dump and such things and I don't even know if the  
DAT will be recognized by the NeXT.

Could anyone that has experience (or theories) with this sort of thing, please  
post a follow-up.  Even better would be if you could e-mail me and then I will  
post the responses in a summary.


Thank You,

Paul R. Woods
eer1@midway.uchicago.edu