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From: topping@clam.cis.ohio-state.edu (brian e topping)
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Subject: Re: Backing up Mac hard disks to AUFS volumes?
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Date: 26 Nov 89 20:45:17 GMT
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I am not sure exactly how macdump works, but I know that I have been working
on an _application_ that sounds similar.  It was designed for educational
institutions that have students using the hard disks durnig the course of
a class and subsequently making a mess out of them.  It is basically an
incremental backup program that copies from one mounted volume to another.
It has the capability to go to and/or from a specific node on a directory
tree.  It is something that must be done explicitly (i.e. you must somehow
launch the program manually), but it is very automatic once started, cause
it remembers the names of the source and destination volumes, can be set
to automatically start the copy process on launch, quit after completion,
and if desired, shut down the power on mac IIs.  I talked about starting
it a few months ago, version .61 is the one that actually works correctly.
(There was a small bug in the string comparison routine on earlier
versions).

I thought it would have come across comp.binaries.mac by now, but I guess
there is something of a backlog for sub missions, so if you want a copy
of it, I can send you a binhexed version of it thru netmail.  If you
require the node to node version, please state so in your request.  Be
forewarned that it may not come as quickly as I have not worked out the
user interface issues on it yet.

Brian Topping
<topping@cis.ohio-state.edu>