On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:04:12AM -0600, Chris Chapman wrote: > The new system will not contain a backup drive, as it is a thin > rackmount system (IBM Netfinity 4000R). What is the best way to perform > network backups of a Linux based PrimeBase system? Is it possible for > me to run Retrospect on a Mac, having iDal on the same machine, saving > the backups locally rather than on the remote system? Then backing up > with RetroSpect... Is this even possible?? One option based on your description is to load the afpd software onto the Linux box so that you can publish directories as an AppleShare File Server. Then simply have your (scheduled!) idal backup script run and move the backup to this directory which can be backed up by retrospect. I've done that on an OS X box, and I have a Linux box that is running afpd quite happily so that should work. You can script Retrospect to log into a server volume, storing the userid and password internally, so that it will log in, do the backup and log out without any required user intervention. The only question I can see that might be a problem is the 'endianness' of PrimeBase as the data files for Intel-based systems are different from those of PowerPC based systems, although I would guess as long as you put them back by reversing the process you should be fine. Give it a spin & let us know! Cheers, Erik Ableson -- ---------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: <http://list.working-dogs.com/lists/retro-talk/> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
