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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Amoeba backups
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How, under Amoeba, does one do backups of the file server's disks?
I realize that with distributed storage and duplicated writes, reliability
is pretty high; however, I've always lost more files to stumble-fingers than
to disk failures (and it's usually been more catastrophic :-).  

Anyway, it seems to me that if you need to know the secret parts of the
capabilities to read the files, you'll have a hard time backing them
up.  If not, is there an undocumented service that returns information
needed to back up the bullet server and directory servers?

		   -- Darren

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