Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!UGA.CC.UGA.EDU!HAROLD From: HAROLD@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (Harold Pritchett) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: PC -> Unix backups??? Message-ID: <9011080959.aa16657@louie.udel.edu> Date: 8 Nov 90 14:52:58 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 On Thu, 8 Nov 90 02:33:03 GMT David Paul Zimmerman said: > >I'm working on a scheme to do weekly backups of my administrative PCs' data. >Pros: It's simple and will be cheap to implement. Cons: it uses 1:1 disk >space. > >I'm only interested in backing up the data that they create locally, so I'm >configuring all of their programs to write data in a C:\DATA directory tree. >Once a week, they will run a script (actually, they will click on an Windows >3.0 icon that runs a script) called BACKUP.BAT. > >BACKUP.BAT uses a freely available TAR.EXE (part of a PAX package that came >over comp.binaries.ibm.pc many moons ago grasshopper) to "tar" up C:\DATA into >C:\BACKUP\BACKUP.TAR (or some such name). BACKUP.BAT then calls KA9Q, It seems to me that the right solution here would be to use ZOO in place of TAR.EXE. ZOO will provide the same function (package files together, retaining the original directory structure, etc) with the added advantage of compressing the data so that a 1:1 storage space is no longer required. ZOO is also available for UNIX systems, so if necessary a file can be extracted on the backup server and downloaded without having to return the whole thing back to the pc to extract the one file desired. >All of this should ultimately cost me a total of nothing. Since ZOO is also in the public domain, this cost doesn't change... Harold C Pritchett | BITNET: HAROLD@UGA BITNET TechRep | ARPA: harold@uga.cc.uga.edu The University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 | fido: 1:370/60 (404) 542-3135 | Bbs: SYSOP at (404) 354-0817