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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 10:14:40 +0200
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From: Antonio Navarro Navarro <webmaster@bemarnet.es>
Subject: Backing up a FreeBSD system
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Hello !

I am the hostmaster of BemarNet Management (Internet Service Providers in
Europe). I am in the process of buying a tape backup unit for my system. The
system configuration follows :=20

  -  1 Pentium machine with FreeBSD 2.0 and 4 Gb. SCSI Hard Drive.
  -  1 Pentium machine with FreeBSD 2.0 and 2 Gb. IDE Hard Drive.
  -  2 NT Servers with 4 Gb. SCSI Hard Disk.=20
  - 10 Windows '95 machines with 1 Gb. IDE Hard Disk.

All the computers are conected to a LAN using NE-2000 network cards with
NetBIOS and TCP/IP, and this LAN is connected to a CISCO 2501 Router with a
T1 to the Internet. I have installed samba in both the FreeBSD machines.

The information I need to backup follows :

  - The whole disks of the two FreeBSD machines (About 6 Gb.)
  - The shared directories of the two NT Servers (About 2 Gb.)

I have SCSI interfaces in one of the FreeBSD machines and in the NT Servers.
I am looking for a reliable and fast solution for perfoming this backups. I
think the best solution is an external SCSI DAT Drive 4-8 Gb., connected to
the NT Servers for doing the backups of the NT machines, and connected to
the SCSI FreeBSD machine for doing the backups from both freebsd machines. I
have the following questions :

 - =BF Do you know about a reliable DAT SCSI Unit fully compatible with
FreeBSD and NT ?=20
 - =BF Can I do a backup in this unit from one FreeBSD machine to the other=
 ?=20
 - =BF Can I do backups of the NT Servers using the FreeBSD machine ?=20
 - =BF Can I do backups of the FreeBSD machines using the NT Servers ?
=20
Thanks in advance,

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