Networker

Re: [Networker] Backing up Mac OS X

2004-04-13 10:02:31
Subject: Re: [Networker] Backing up Mac OS X
From: Steve Rader <rader AT GINSENG.HEP.WISC DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:02:20 -0500
Another low-tech solution: skip /Volumes and notify users that
1) stuff mounted in /Volumes won't be backed up and thus 2)
file systems they care about should be mounted elsewere.

steve
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systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

 > ---- Original Message ----
 > From: Stan Horwitz
 > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Vandecruys Kris wrote:
 >
 > >Hey Stan,
 >
 > >did you learn anything more on this subject ? I haven't seen any new
 > >posts on it recently and was rather curious about this issue.
 >
 > A suggestion was made to simply skip backups of anything in /Volumes but
 > that will not work in our situation because some volumes in /Volumes do
 > need to be backed up. We simply decided not to leave optical media in the
 > DVD drive when backups run. Its low tech, but it works for us.

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