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October BBLISA Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas W. Heft)
Tue Oct 27 12:15:39 1992
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 11:08:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Thomas W. Heft" <heft@husc.harvard.edu>
To: bblisa@inset.com
BACK BAY LISA
The New England Local System Administration Forum
FOURTH MEETING
The topic for the October meeting is BACKUPS. The first half of the
meeting will be a series of short (10 minute) presentations on backup
strategies and systems. During the second half of the meeting, the
speakers will form a panel and there will be an open discussion on any
backup related topics anyone wishes to bring up.
In order to make sure all the speakers have time, the meeting will
start promptly at 7 o'clock.
Our speakers/panel members for the evening are:
John Rouillard (rouilj@ra.cs.umb.edu)
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John will present the ongoing work on the Ohio-State University backup
system written by Steve Romig. This backup system was originally
presented as part of the LISA V conference. This backup system,
written entirely in perl, provides tape management services and
bookkeeping services for your standard backup tools like dump(8) and
Gnu tar.
Adam Moskowitz (adamm@inset.com)
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While many good back-up systems exist, The Instruction Set had a need
for one that would work in a heterogeneous, distributed environment
where only one archive device existed. Rather than accept a
less-than-ideal solution, Adam wrote his own. The system is a set of
shell scripts, supported by a few small, portable C programs. It can
use or ignore NFS, work with almost any archive device, and makes full
use of the processing power available.
Douglas Alan (nessus@mit.edu)
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Doug's talk is titled "How to Reliably Backup up to 50 Gigabytes of
Disk Space On One $3,000 Tape Drive, Using No Expensive Software, and
15 Minutes a Day". He plans to talk about some techniques that can be
used in home-brew shell or Perl backup scripts to increase the ease
and reliability of backing up many disk drives distributed on several
fileservers to a single Exabyte 8500 tape drive.
Steve Glassman (glassman@epoch.com)
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Steve will present EpochBackup, a network backup product that has been
built to optimize the time spent by the System Administrator (SA) when
maintaining backups of hosts on a network. The tool runs under the
EpochServ environment, which provides Hierarchical Storage Management
(HSM) and removable Volume Management (VM) to the EpochBackup
environment.
Michael I. Bushnell (mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
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Michael is the maintainer of GNU tar, which is designed to make
backups fun and easy. GNU tar is an effective backup systems for many
different types of systems. Unlike other tar programs, GNU tar
supports multiple tape drives, incremental backup and restore,
automatic end-of-tape detection, and much, much more. GNU tar comes
with backup scripts suitable for full and level one incremental dumps.
Also, in contrast with other tar programs, GNU tar deals correctly
with arbitrarily long filenames. Planned for the future are a shell
script to make restore easier, and dump scripts that support arbitrary
patterns of incremental dumps, in the same fashion as BSD's dump.
MEETING TIME AND LOCATION
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Date: Wednesday, October 28, 1992
Time: 19:00 (sharp)
At: MIT
Room 140
Building E51
70 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
Directions:
Car: For folks driving, they should follow Memorial
Drive, and then turn down Wadsworth St to get
to the rear of the building. Entrance
and parking are in the rear.
T: Red Line to Kendal Square stop.
From the T head over toward Au Bon Pain, take
right onto Wadsworth St. The E51 building is
at the corner of Wadsworth and Amherst St.
Food and Drinks:
Cambridge Brewing Co. is just a short 10 minute walk
away. Folks are encouraged to gather there after the
meeting for conversation, libation, and edification.
(And food, for those who want it.)
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