Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:13:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Johan Petersson <kjep@kajen.com> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Backup suggestions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702001227.18536V-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: MSG9806281819031@kestrel.airport.eu.org
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Johan Petersson wrote: > I have a small network consisting of one Windows95 and one FreeBSD > 2.2.6 (running samba) computer. The way I see it there are two ways to > back up this system. > > The cheap way: An Iomega Ditto Max in the Win95 computer would be able > to back up the FreeBSD machine over the network, right? Not necessarily. > The expensive way: A SCSI DAT tape drive in the FreeBSD machine. Is it > possible to run the backup software on the Win95 computer and somehow > access the DAT tape? There are several commercial packages available that support backups over a network for multi-platform sites. Many of these work under FreeBSD. See the Commercial Gallery on www.freebsd.org for hints. There was one in particular at USENIX but I don't remember the name. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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