Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!indetech!david
From: david@indetech.com (David Kuder)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: disk allocation strategy
Summary: one backup strategy
Message-ID: <1990May28.232017.9279@indetech.com>
Date: 28 May 90 23:20:17 GMT
References: <1990May24.071122.7009@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Organization: Independence Technologies, Inc. Fremont, CA
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In article <1990May24.071122.7009@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>One potential problem that i see is how to back up distributed user's
>directories.  If they are centralized, they can be more easily backed up.

One strategry that has been re-invented in several different forms is
to copy the data on local disks onto the central servers.  The schemes
range from doing network file system mounts, to doing backups on the
individual machines and shipping the tape images over the net to the
fileserver.  Check out the proceedings of the Large System
Administration conferences held by Usenix the last several years for
details.
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