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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Backup Suggestions? Date: 29 Dec 1995 03:29:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4bvnaf$m36@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4bvhar$og3@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4bvhar$og3@gol2.gol.com>, Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> wrote: >There is still an extra slot, so one idea was to add another Fireball >into that slot and do a daily dump onto the second hard drive (one >gigabyte hard drives are so cheap now). > >Is that the easiest solution? I'd say so, yes. Certainly the cheapest. Perhaps you could even implement a hybrid solution of sorts. More on this in a moment. >Is there some way of mounting my MO-drive via one of the Macs or Windows >95 machines on my tiny LAN and dumping that way? Not via any standard Mac/Window service that I know of, but it may be possible to buy NFS server software for either one and actually export the MO drive as an NFS backup device. Then you could dump straight into a file on the MO drive. Either that or, don't laugh, you could even write yourself a little backup daemon for the Mac or the Windows box and have it talk to a backup utility on the FreeBSD box. It wouldn't even be that hard to write - you could probably hack dump to do the setup dialog with your little `device' representing the MO drive on the other machine and then have your daemon just copy dump's output into a file on the MO drive. Assuming that something like this is doable for you, then it'd be my recomendation that you buy that cheap 1GB drive for the time being and do disk-to-disk backups to give yourself some immediate coverage. Since no disk is entirely reliable, you should also hack on the software solution to export that MO drive for less frequent backups of the backup drive itself. Jordan