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From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Backup info for RT Wanted
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Date: 22 Jul 89 05:27:00 GMT
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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

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