Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!prism!mm42 From: mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Really General Backup Questions Message-ID: <2293@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 5 Oct 89 13:09:15 GMT Reply-To: mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell) Organization: Ramblin' Wrecks from Georgia Tech Lines: 10 I'm interested in hearing what schemes people use for backing up clusters of workstations (in my case Sun 386i's and SPARC's). Is 'tar' normally used for this? Is there any problem with running the backup as an overnight 'cron' job? Are there any common script files or other utilities for this purpose? -- Bo Jackson on traffic in Los Angeles: | Mark Mitchell Georgia Tech "I live 5 minutes from the supermarket, | GTRI/STL/MSD Atlanta, GA but it takes me half an hour to get there."| mm42@prism.gatech.edu