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From: dnb@brandeis.csnet (David N. Blank)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: SUN level zero backup
Message-ID: <11570@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 1 Feb 88 09:16:41 GMT
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Greetings,

  I have a "What if..." question that you might be able to help me
with.  Currently, we do level zero backups for our twelve odd SUN (2/3)
workstations (running NFS) over our ethernet (via rmt) to our standard
DEC tape drives residing on a VAX.  This takes an eternity (ok, maybe
not an eternity, but it is a good six+ hour job) during which all of
the workstations must remain idle.  Surely there must be a better way.
One way might be to hook up (while doing the backup) one of the DEC
tape drives directly to a sun, but I am unsure of the feasibility of
this alternative.  Is this possible?  What hardware/connectors would I
need for this?  Thanks for your help.

          Peace,
             David N. Blank (dnb@brandeis.csnet | blank@brandeis.bitnet)
             Assistant SysAdmin
             Brandeis University Computer Science 

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