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From: jeffs@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Schluep)
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Subject: Backup stratagies
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Date: 5 Jun 91 17:52:00 GMT
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	I am looking into backing up disks in a NeXT lab situation.  We
will have about 30-50 105 mb nextstations and a cube with a 1.4 gb 
disk.  I don't think that the 105 stations will have anything important
on them so I could just rebuild those from scratch.

	Does anybody out there have any good/bad experiences with a 
particular backup system?  Is anybody using 8mm or 4mm tapes to 
backup with?  Also, does anybody know of a NeXT front end for 
tar/dump so that a lab monitor could easily restore files?

							thanks,

							Jeff Schluep
							ACS Unix Group
							The Ohio State University