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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Backing up local drives in a Mac network
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.165714.20358@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 16:57:14 GMT
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alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:

>francis@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) writes:

>>I'm looking for helpful suggestions as to my back-up options.  We've
>>got a few hundred Macs, and a few hundred Suns, Suns on Ethernet, Macs

>And does anyone have an elegant way to back up local HDs over the net?
>Man-oh-man, I need a *secured* way to get the data off local drives and
>backed up!  (There is a way to do this on PC Novell networks, but I have
>yet to see its equiv. on the Mac side.)  

The best security is physical security.  If you find a *secured* way to
back up over the net, LET ME KNOW.  For you, I'd suggest something
portable that can be carried around from machine to machine.  A tape drive
that you can hook up to the machine you want to back up, and then when
you're done, go on to the next.  I have 1 streaming tape backup drive 
attached to an Appleshare server.  I could backup the office Macs to a tape
easily, but Professors (on the net, but not on the local ring) would be a
different matter.  So far, the only thing that gets backed up regular is
the servers own personal harddrive.

Anyway.
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