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Re: problems with Webshell

1996-10-17 10:05:34
Subject: Re: problems with Webshell
From: David Killingsworth <david_w_killingsworth AT AMOCO DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:05:34 -0500
     One other problem that most people will want to be aware of is that
     you can only do a restore from an active or most recent version of
     each file backed up.  For example, we keep 5 copies of each file, with
     webshell you can only restore the one that was backed up
     yesterday...not the version that was backed up 5 days ago.

     David Killingsworth


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>Subject: Re: problems with Webshell
>Author:  ADSM-L (ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU) at unix,mime
>Date:    10/17/96 6:44 AM
>
>
>Dwight Cook <decook AT AMOCO DOT COM> wrote:
>>
>>      What exactly is the "WebShell"?
>>  ...
>>
>
>WebShell is the WWW client of ADSM. It contains an embedded Web server.
>If it is installed on your ADSM client machine, you can use your
>favourite WWW browser to do backups and restores (and archives and
>retrieves too). As far as I know, it is available for Windows, OS/2 and
>AIX. If you visit the FTP-Server and look at the directory for the resp.
>platform, you will find a file named
>"winweb.exe"/"os2web.exe"/"aixweb.tar".
>
>I was highly interested in the aixweb, because it promised to solve an old
>problem of mine: let users restore files even if they are not allowed to
>login to the file server which performs the backups. So I installed the
>aixweb on that machine. My first impression was, that it takes some time
>to get used to it, but then it does the job. But there is one major
>problem: Every WebShell user has to be registered and must be assigned a
>password. This is done by invoking a program named "mkwspwsd". Do I want
>to introduce a separate user management for our >20000 users? You might
>guess it: no! So forget it.
>
>WebShell is probably more addressed at people who want to stick to one
>user interface: the WWW browser. (But do those people know, what a file
>is? ;-))
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