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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Incremental backups on DOS
Message-ID: <1257@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 22:52:48 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.1257
Posted: Mon Mar  2 22:52:48 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Mar-87 19:43:13 EST
References: <269@cg-d.UUCP> <5280002@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <5280002@hplsla.HP.COM> davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (      David Reed) writes:
%
%I hope some one has one real soon ( a program for doing an incremental  backup
%of PC files  over the LAN to a UNIX  machine  with a tape  drive ), as it will
%save me a lot of time and  trouble.  If not, I will  have one ( my plans  call
%for me to begin creating such a program towards the end of March if I have not
%located one ).

One possible solution to your problem is PC-NFS from Sun. It will
allow you to use the DOS BACKUP utiltiy (I know, yecch) to do a
disk to disk backup to the "other" disk which is really the hard
disk on a UNIX machine. You may want to put some of your
frequently used software on that disk to clear out the local
disks.

Warning(s): there is a performance hit from using NFS as opposed
to local disk, your clones may not supports the hardware, and
some software may not be legally used over a network.

-- 
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