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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


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