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From: freeman@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: A/UX and tape backup?
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Date: 22 Feb 88 20:58:51 GMT
Reply-To: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Organization: SPAR - Schlumberger Palo Alto Research
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I am confused.  Suppose I have a well-equipped Mac II, whose configuration
includes (a) the current release of A/UX, (b) an Apple 40 MByte SCSI tape
backup unit (with the software that came with it -- I think that's version
1.1 of the tape backup program) and (c) Macintosh System Software 5.0.

Now, can someone provide a simple "yes" or "no" answer to the following
question:

Given this configuration of goodies, is there *any* way to back up A/UX to
40 MByte tape cartridges?

I think I understand that one cannot back up A/UX to the tape drive from
A/UX itself, but how about from the finder?  For example, can I back up the
A/UX partition as a single lump, using the "Backup Volume" feature of the
tape backup program?  (This might not work in two ways; it might be that the
A/UX partition is some different kind of volume that won't back up the
regular way, or it might be that the tape backup program can't cope with a
single volume too big to fit on one 40 MByte tape cartridge.)

I hope someone from Apple will spell out for the network precisely what tape
backup capability for A/UX is available with present Apple hardware and
software.  Phil Ronzone, are you listening?


						-- Jay Freeman