Re: [WinMac] X-platform backup software
Bill Chapman(billc[at]sarc.msstate.edu)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:15:26 GMT+6
Nick:
When you are on a Win95/98 client, can you see the network
neighborhood on a WinNT server? Does that network neighborhood
show your Mac, as well?
Then what is the total amount of disk space you will be backing up?
Hard drives are so cheap now, that I was thinking you may be able
to buy a cheap Pentium, but with a large hard drive, and dedicate it
to using MSBackup and backing up the network neighborhood of
the WinNT server. Two large capacity hard drives are cheaper than
one large capacity DAT, so you could flip-flop your backups
between the two hard drives every other day.
I am still in the planning stages of setting up our WinNT server, so I
don't know if any of this works. Your experience, however, may
suggest it can or cannot work. What do you thing?
Thanks,
Bill
On 11 Mar 99, at 13:55, Nick Scalise wrote:
> Thanks to all for the help on my ethernet troubles. I think I will steer
> clear of the brand of NIC and hub that I was using.
>
> Anyway, my new question is about backup software. I am an almost lone Mac
> user in a sea of PC's where I have my regular job. We need to be able to
> backup NT, 95, Mac and Linux boxes. Are there any solutions out there that
> will let us do that on a budget? I would like to get a relatively
> inexpensive PC with a tape drive in it running NT, and have clients for all
> the above mentioned boxes? It would be a maximum of 10 boxes backing up.
>
> I know of Retrospect, but would prefer not to have to turn my Mac into the
> main backup machine.
>
> --
> Nick Scalise
> nicks@radiks.net
>
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