Backing up two computers on one tape with UUCP
Bill Vermillion
bill at bilverbilver.uucp
Fri Oct 5 14:09:29 AEST 1990
In article <265 at twg.wimsey.bc.ca> bill at twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
>I've got this scenario where one computer has too much disk used to
>backup on its 60Mb tape. The sysadm would like to backup a portion of
>the file system over a direct uucp link onto a system with a 150Mb tape.
>Neither system has enough free disk space to hold a tar archive on disk
>while it is being transferred between systems.
Here's an alternate approach. One client I had went into their 3rd tape on
backups, and really complained how long it took to back it up. That was
the final thing I needed to convince them to go to CTAR. Now they do
unattended late night backups with verify, and with the compression turned
on the 2 and but of the 3rd 60 meg tapes all fit on one tape.
Don't have anything to do with the product other than having several happy
clients with it.
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