Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au!dunnart!janet From: janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Network backups (was Re: parameters for (r)dump to an exabyte) Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 10:11:51 GMT References: <1991Jun19.222701.29689@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia. Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: dunnart In frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes: >For the curious, here is the context. I am writing a dump script, I'd like to know more about your dump script, as I am hoping to avoid having to write one. We have a network of Sun workstations, about 25 at last count, two of which have Exabyte drives. Currently I'm using a thing called "backup" which supervises dump to do multiple dumps from one machine to one tape. I need to do multiple machines as well - currently got shell scripts supervising backup, but I can't tell backup how much tape is left after each machine has been dumped. The only reason it hasn't failed yet is that I know the file systems I'm backing up will fit even if they're completely full (which most of them aren't). This is not good enough! So what does/will your dump script do? (if it's not a secret, of course) Does anyone have any info about backup software that will back up multiple filesystems of multiple machines on one or more tapes? Public-domain, shareware, or even commercial. Janet Jackson (janet@cs.uwa.oz.AU) Department of Computer Science The University of Western Australia