Really General Backup Questions

[Mark Mitchell]

I'm interested in hearing what schemes people use for backing up clusters
of workstations (in my case Sun 386i's and SPARC's).  Is 'tar' normally
used for this?  Is there any problem with running the backup as an 
overnight 'cron' job?  Are there any common script files or other utilities
for this purpose?

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