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From: Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: appleTalk backup
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Date: 31 Jul 90 17:47:05 GMT
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In article <11147@claris.com>, peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) writes:
> With the coming of System 7 and FileShare it seems like it should be possible
> to setup a network wide backup system very easily.  Simply have each of your
> users setup (or setup for them) a BACKUP User that has access to all of their
> files (or at least those they want backed up).  Then nightly (or whenever)
> you can mount their disks and backup them up as needed.
> 
> Isn't system 7 fun!

Yup, it is.

But this solution won't work for a very large group.  We're thinking about
ways to provide centralized backup for over 3,000 hard disks.  Mounting user
disks won't cut it -- even if we could automate the process the brain-dead
ATP timeouts would kill us.  We also need to provide a network restore
interface, so that users don't have to bother us to get their data back.

The latest MacWeek has some info about Retrospect Remote, which promises
to address some of these problems.  They mention a limit of 130 users per
backup server -- too few for our purposes, but maybe it can be stretched....

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development--