Subject: Re: Backup Software Question
From: Vic Landi (vic@mail.jamesltaylor.com)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 15:25:02 EDT
There is a Windows client for Retrospect which works pretty well...
> From: Danny Sauer <dsauer@teleologic.net>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:06:39 -0500
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Subject: Re: Backup Software Question
> Resent-From: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Speaking of Retrospect: we've got several mac and windows desktops and
> a few linux servers. Presently, our backup scheme is for the windows users
> to use a samba home directory with their "my documents" on the network,
> and the mac users copy stuff to be backed up over to a G4 with a DVD-RAM.
> The mac users are backed up using Retrospect, and the windows/linux
> filesystems are manually copied over to a seperate DVD-RAM.
>
> I was recently looking at MacOnLinux with LinuxPPC, and thought that it would
> be great to be able to stick LinuxPPC on the G4 and use something like Arkeia
> (or a script of my own doing, perhaps) to backup the linux machines (and thus
> the windows machines), while running Retrospect under MOL for the mac people,
> since the Mac is better at backing up the macs than netatalk is (for now).
>
> Anyway, do any of you know if Retrospect will work OK under MOL, and how
> well it works? I know this is drifting off of netatalk by a wide margin,
> but it's kinda part of this thread... :)
>
> Thanks.
> --Danny
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