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From: irajoe@athena.mit.edu (Ira J. Haimowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Backing up an AppleShare fileserver to tape
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.215149.20783@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 91 21:51:49 GMT
Sender: David Alcocer (irajoe@athena.mit.edu)
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	A quick question about backing up a Mac II fileserver.  I
currently use Network Diskfit (by SuperMac, I think) which lets me
back up my fileserver over a network without shutting down the server.
I'm backing up onto the small 40Mb tapes used with Apple's tape drive.
The problem is, the fileserver now contains more than 40Mb worth of
stuff.  So although I used to tell DiskFit to automatically begin the
backup at night, now I'm stuck since I'll need to swap tapes.  What
can I do?

	Can I buy a tape drive that takes larger cassettes, and still
expect DiskFit to work?  I've also tried excluding some folders from
the backup by giving them bracketted names (as per the DiskFit
instructions), but this doesn't help because Diskfit assumes that I'll
need more than one tape as soon as it sees that the server contains
>40Mb (i.e., before it ignores the [bracket] folders).  

	Also, if someone could tell me just what "partitioning" a hard
disk means, whether I can partition a server, and whether this will do
me any good, please let me know.

	Thanks much.