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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Backing up local drives in a Mac network
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.194147.4604@uwasa.fi>
Date: 26 Jul 90 19:41:47 GMT
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In article <1990Jul26.165714.20358@cs.umn.edu> aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) writes:
>>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

I don't know what do you mean by secure here, but one possibility
which I have been thinking of (and even tried to fulfill when I had
Tecmar DATaVault for testing) is that you do one time whole backups on
every Mac and then attach the DAT-tape drive to one Mac that takes the
changed files which are backed up to a file on every Mac. Oscar can
do the transfering. As I told before I tried this but the problem
was only that we didn't manage to get Retrospect v1.1 to work as
expected according to release notes with that DAT drive. It can be 
that the newer version of Retro (v.1.1.2) can do it but we don't have 
the drive anymore.
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