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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Backup Utilities for Unix
Message-ID: <4360@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 12:37:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: videovax.4360
Posted: Tue Apr 28 12:37:52 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 04:29:27 EDT
References: <1308@ci-dandelion.UUCP>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
Lines: 32
Keywords: system management backups dump restore
Summary: They were there for the Sigma 7 -- surely, for the VAX, too!
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In article <1308@ci-dandelion.UUCP>, David Watson (david@ci-dandelion.UUCP)
writes:

> I'm starting to look for any software that provides a superset of the
> Berkeley-style dump(8) and restore(8) utilities.  . . .

I would like to find something that is a *real* superset!  One feature
that would be invaluable is the ability to back up the filesystem while
the machine is loaded with users and running.  The present backup is
supposed to cause unspecified evil to occur if all users aren't off the
machine. . .

Particularly, I would like to find an incremental backup utility that
would lurk in the background and periodically, at user-specified times
(every hour, twice a day, whatever), back up files that have been
changed since the last run.  Since our VAX is small (an 11/750) and runs
unattended, it would need the ability to keep writing to the same tape
until the tape is filled, and then holler for help (preferably by mail,
or some such).  It would also need to be reasonable about its use of the
tape drive -- there must be some way to get it to give up the drive so
other things could be done, without at the same time requiring the
operator to mount a tape each time it wanted to run.

All of this was running on the Sigma 7 at Montana State University,
Bozeman, Montana, almost 20 years ago!  Surely, someone has done the
same kind of backup utility for the VAX!!!

					Steve Rice

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