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From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's good for backing up AppleShare hard drive?
Message-ID: <2390@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 14:15:08 GMT
References: <153@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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From article <153@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, by ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley):

> Is there a program better than Apple's HD Backup that'll work well with
> AppleShare?  Everything's gotta be saved ... files, folders, all access
> privileges, all comments in the Get Info boxes (very very important), all
> users, groups, etc. etc.

I am using network diskfit.  It seems to do the job well.  If you take the
hard drive off line to do the backup, it will save all file access
priviliges, users and groups, and other such fun stuff.

> there's the issue of periodical incremental backups, too ... how easy will
> those be?

Diskfit makes incrementals very easy.  The only problem is that you
need to bring the server down to do the backup.

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I am doing my backups a little differently.  I make sure that all
folders belong to a group, and have group read priviliges.  Custodian
belongs to all groups.  When I backup, I do it as custodian, and
backup all files, regardless of owner.  From the net, There is a bit
in the LAYO resource of system 6.0 that causes new folder to inherit
their file protection from their parent.  This is the final key to
making sure that custodian has read access everywhere.  I have not
played with this yet, as I am still using older system software.

Everytime that I use the administration program, I save the users and
groups file in a folder that custodian can look at, so my users and
groups are saved.  I suspect, however, that my access priviliges are
not getting saved.  I have a hard drive on order that I am going to
use to test this hypothesis before I put it to its intended use.  The
manual is silent about Get Info comments.  I will check them out also
when my hard drive arrives.

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Network disk fit is also a multi-launch application that everyone on
the net can use (up to 32 people, by license) to back up their own
hard drives, and files that they own on the server.  I am
contemplating making everyone responsible for backing up folders that
belong to them on the server, and I will do only those that belong to
custodian, or myself.

-- 
 William C. DenBesten
 denbeste@bgsu.edu