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From: berger@datacube.UUCP
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Subject: Experiences with UBACKUP?
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Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 14:48:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 27 14:48:00 1987
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!berger    Apr 27 14:48:00 1987


Has anyone had any experiences with Unitech's Ubackup?
This is a utility that supposedly is easier to administer and offload
to clearical help for doing daily full and incremental backups.

It supposidly can reliably do backups on live filesystems without failure.
It automates the management of the backup tape pool for rotating dump tapes
over time and recording where they are kept.

Ubackup has a more robust labeling mechanism of tapes and allows users to
queue up personal backups that an operator can then do in a batch mode.

It probably has other features that I can't remember off hand.

My main question is: Is it worth it compared to some simple scripts and
dump?

I am mainly looking for a more reliable, robust way of backing up live 
filesystems.

				Bob Berger 

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