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From: sinclair@aerospace.aero.org (William S. Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: file backups in a mixed environment
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Date: 17 May 89 00:17:48 GMT
Reply-To: sinclair@aero.UUCP (William S. Sinclair)
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Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Sender:Bill Sinclair

We have a LAN that contains a MicroVAX II (VMS) and several UNIX
devices, such as IRISes, DECstation 3100's etc. We are lokking for
a way to get a file backup system to work with all of these devices
at once. To the best of my knowledge, the EXABYTE drives don't yet
have an implementation with the DEC RISC architecture. If they did,
we could dump the UNIX nodes with that, and use VAX/ULTRIX connect
to NFS the VMS files over to it.

The other possibility is to put a EXABYTE system on the VMS side;
but then we'd need some way to use the VMS system as an NFS client. I don't
know of any products that will do that. Have any of you done any experimen-
tation with this kind of arrangement?