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From: craig@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Craig Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Doing Mac backups through a Gator Box
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Date: 8 Sep 90 22:28:12 GMT
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We have two AppleTalk networks of ~30 Macs each, connected to an Ethernet
network through two Cayman Gator Boxes.  A heavy load, I know.  Each Mac
has 40-60MB of files.  We are running backups for these Macs over the
network to a UNIX box, compressing the files on the UNIX box, and then
dumping everything to Exabyte.

Due to the narrow throughput of the Gator Box, and limited bandwidth, it
takes about a week (6 hours a night, for 7 days) to do a full dump of all
the Macs.  Unfortunately for us, users want incrementals done every night.
With our current setup, this is physically impossible.

Does anyone know of *any* way to speed things up.  We are open to all
sugestions.  Is there a *fast* tape drive that we can hang off the 
AppleTalk?  Is there software to speed up the Gator Box?  

Thanks in advance.

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Craig Robinson					Distributed Systems Services 
craig@casbah.acns.nwu.edu	     Academic Computing and Network Services