Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Backup?
From: Ron Chmara (ron@Opus1.COM)
Date: Fri Aug 06 1999 - 16:04:37 EDT
Vicki Brown wrote:
>
> I have a Linux (RedHat) system running netatalk for user home directories
> and two additional volumes: /homes itself, and another "folder".
> I want to be able to back this stuff up, and I don't want to lose anything.
> The backup machine is currently a G3 PowerMac running 8.5 and Retrospect.
> It's the backup machine because it has the CD-R drive and the DAT drive.
> Is there anything I can do that's clean and simple?
Mount /homes and folder on the G3 desktop.
Backup with retrospect.
I really don't know why people make this so hard...
> I could try to convince the company to buy a DAT drive to hang off the
> Linux server...
Seems a bit pricy.
> I could write some script that cron would use to push the files over FTP to
> the G3 (after installing an FTP server on the G3)...
Macsynchronize on G3, if you want a mirror.
> I could write a similar script to pull the files over FTP from the Linux
> server to the G3...
> But is there anything I can do with the netatalk stuff?
Not yet, afaik.... are you looking for an ASIP client?
-Bop
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