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From: sinclair@aerospace.aero.org (William S. Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Sharing a common BACKUP device with UNIX nodes.....
Message-ID: <51509@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 18 May 89 00:58:56 GMT
Reply-To: sinclair@aero.UUCP (William S. Sinclair)
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Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Is there an arrangement similar to Local Area Vax Clustering for UNIX
devices,in particular DECstation 3100's? We have 4 or 5 of the little
nippers, each with 330 MB of local disk space. We would like to buy a
single file backup device, then have all of them share it, so that a
nightly backup of all the UNIX nodes can be done with a minimum of
headaches. Assuming that node #1 has the backup device on it, then nodes
#2, #3, #4, etc. would then be NFS servers in turn, where node #1 is the
client. But that seems like a cumbersome arrangement. Maybe something
more reliable is possible. I know that SUN networks can do it; they use
the EXABYTE video cartridges, but I don't know about DECstations.