Local Backup - ``Do it Yourself''

If you wish to perform local backups, especially if you can cluster some systems together, then we recommend one of the following tools:

• Standard Unix tools such as dump/restore, tar, cpio and so on;      however, these do not have a friendly interface and few advanced features (little or no support for rebooting from tape, no compression, etc) although they are free. Unless you fully understand them and/or have a small number of systems to administer, we urge you to at least consider one of the following commercial products, depending on the architecture of your system(s).

• DEC ULTRIX and OSF/1 systems -- obtain licences for DECnsr.  Like several other tools, DECnsr supports other platforms as clients.

• HP systems (Apollo/Domain and Series 700) - obtain license for OMNIBACK;  this tool can write to tapes or cartridges on Apollo or Series 700 and has Apollo, Series 700 and SUN clients. Series 700 licenses are immediately available via Alan Silverman, CN Division (see cern.hp news).

• Other systems and mixed-architectures groups -- there are many tools, some propriety tool such as SUN's CoPilot , and some general such as Legato Networker   which is available for most platforms. Contact Unix Workstation Support for more information.