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From: rjt@sedist.cray.com (Randy Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Exabyte and MacDump (Was: Can I Back Up my Hard Drive on my VCR)
Keywords: 8mm Backup Exabyten
Message-ID: <083514.5492@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 14:45:04 GMT
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	CAP is the Columbia AppleTalk Protocols; a set of libraries that
allows most *nix boxes to speak AppleTalk. Look on cunix.cc.columbia.edu;
there is also a rutgers version that fixes some bugs. Look on
rutgers.rutgers.edu for ru-cap.tar.Z. There is a lot of black magic
(and other colors, too :-) in getting it to work; don't ask me what I did,
I'm sworn to secrecy - well, okay, I'm not sure why what I did worked. Seems
to be a common occurrence in Tech Support :-)

	Yes, I've dropped (well, the user did) a disk. Made a mess on the
floor. I replaced the drive with a spare, went to another mac, daisy-chained
the disks together, and ran the restore program to suck the disk back
down from the Sun. The user was happy, I was happy, the local KFPS-4
breathed a sigh of relief when the traffic stopped.

	I do full dumps once a week, incrementals nightly. The entire
Sun filesystem where the Mac dumps are stored gets a full backup weekly,
incrementals nightly; it's all timed so the Macs dump and then the Sun dumps.

	I had to bash on the Unix sources for macdump and macdumpmgr to
get them to put things where I wanted, and log the messages I wanted logged.
Mostly tinkering; the guts of the backup code were left unchanged.
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