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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Backing up PC's over a network?
Message-ID: <9792@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Oct 89 15:11:38 GMT
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Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <3029@tahoe.unr.edu> malc@tahoe.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) writes:
>It looks as if we will soon have a number of MS-DOS PC's attached to our
>TCP/IP network here, and there is some interest in backing up these PC's
>onto a central, networked tape drive or drives.  My questions:

>I would also be interested in hearing any folkore regarding doing such
>things over Novell networks, etc.

I just tried something that I didn't expect to work using AT&T's starlan
DOS server.  I made a link from /dev/rmt/c0s0 (a 125M streaming tape
in a 386 unix server) to a file named "tape" in my home directory which
is linked as drive H: to a PC on the network.  From the PC, I used
GNUtar (compiled for DOS) and from drive C: (local hard disk) executed:
tar cvf h:tape .
and it actually created a tape that I could read back under dos or
unix.  Amazing... and I was just about to waste a month or so cobbling
up some kind of netbios<->tli connection to do exactly that.

Les Mikesell