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Subject: Exabyte and MacDump (Was: Can I Back Up my Hard Drive on my VCR)
Keywords: 8mm Backup Exabyten
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Date: 3 Jan 91 07:28:09 GMT
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In article <081735.862@timbuk.cray.com> rjt@sedist.cray.com (Randy Thomas) writes:
About Exabyte tape drives:
>
>	It has a SCSI interface, so I suppose you could attach it to your mac; 
>it mostly behaves like a HUGE streamer drive. I haven't asked, they (or one of 
>the remarketers) may already have mac software for them. 
We have asked Exabyte if they have any drivers for the Macs. Alas, no
they dont consider it a big enough market to get into?? I have not heard
of any re-marketers having software for it either.
>It is an EXTREMELY 
>popular backup mechanism for workstation networks - Here at Cray we have them 
>scattered all over our international network, backing up the various Sun 
>servers we have floating around (I have one on my desk attached to a Sun 3/50 
>that backs up the 3/160 downstairs...).
We have several here on our Sun network also. I can get from the Mac to
the Sun via Tops or FTP through a Fastpath.
>
>	We have a bunch of macs here, and we run macdump to back up their hard 
>disks to the Sun. Every night I pop the backups to the Exabyte drive when the 
>Sun gets backed up...
I got macdump from the archives, but it needs something called the CAP
libraries. Do you know where to get these? Will the Fastpath be good
enough to do the dumping or do I need a direct Ethernet connection? What
is your set up? I would like to get this working here.
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Some other questions:

Have you ever had a disk fail? Can you do a full restore after replacing
the hard-drive or do you have to have most of the system software in
place?
Do you do incremental backups or a full image every night?
Any other suggestions for getting macdump working smoothly?

Thanks

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