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From: laver@siodo.UCSD.EDU (Mick Laver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Automated Mac network backup
Keywords: tops tape backup mac
Message-ID: <324@siodo.UCSD.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 89 04:14:49 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Seems like someone must have come up against this one ...

I have several Macs on a Tops network that I'd like to backup nightly.
Incrementals would be nice, but working folders on all machines is
fine. Right now I'm using the software that came with the tape unit
(Crate 60; Teac ddc) and MacroMaker to semi-automate the process, but
I'd like to make it truly mindless so all I have to remember is to swap
tapes in the morning.

Is there a maccrontab of sorts to run an application at a preset time,
or is there a commercial product designed for unattended network
backup?  The latter would have to have a driver for the Teac drive.

	Mick Laver
	mlaver@ucsd