Re: [cobalt-users] Is is possible to "mirror" RAQ2s?

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:05:43PM -0700, Zero Z. Batzell Dean wrote:
> After looking into "affordable" hard drive backup options for the RAQ2, I 
> discovered there weren't any (correct me if I'm wrong here).

Umm...tar's still free.  Granted you can't do a remote tar to an x86
box w/o a coredump, but if you have another machine w/ a tape drive
you can always mount the RaQ2 via NFS and do a backup that way, not
as reliable but better than nothing.  Or if your RaQ2 has a SCSI port,
buy a tape drive...They aren't that expensive, and far better to spend
a few hundred bucks on tape drive and tapes than to spend thousands in
legal fees.

The long and short of it is, if you don't have a place to attach
another drive, preferrably tape as you will want to be able to 
change backup media and preferrably keep some copies offsite, that
you have to use another machine to back up.

You can use the interface to do the backup which will create a tar
file and send it to you via HTTP, or you can tar your own archive
and download it via FTP, NFS, etc to wherever you wish to store
the backup.

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