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From: andrew@dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick DGBT/DBR)
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Subject: Re: backing up a PC harddisk via PC-NFS to a cartridge on a UNIX system
Keywords: PC harddisk PC-NFS UNIX tar arc lharc
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.142040.5720@dgbt.doc.ca>
Date: 18 Oct 90 14:20:40 GMT
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In article <671@keele.keele.ac.uk> cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt) writes:
>Does anyone know of software, PD or otherwise, that will
>enable a PC running PC-NFS to archive its hard disk as a tar file or
>whatever to a 1/4" cartridge on a UNIX machine on the network?
...

Yes.  Sun's own PC-NFS Lifeline product will do this for you.  PC-NFS
Lifeline runs on top of PC-NFS and provides mail and backup service for
PCs.  For backup, they provide "rput" and "rget" commands for
non-sophisticated users, and a "tar" for those who know what they are
doing.  We use the tar in combination with the "rsh" facility of PC-NFS
to backup PCs to 1/4" and 8mm tapes on a regular basis.  It works great
and most users are able to do it themselves.

Good luck

-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
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