Re: Backup Over A Network?

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well... you could create a save file, and FTP that somewhere...   it's not
ideal, since you'd need enough disk space to make the save file, but it's
something.

If you had a failure, how would you restore it?  You'd have to reinstall
the operating system & re-configure the networking in order to get at your
data...   so I don't think it's a good idea to completely replace your
tape backup with a network solution, but if you just need to make a quick
backup of a smallish library, it's useful.


On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Bob Randall wrote:
>
> I have never seen this actually work, but I thought I had heard of a
> backup process utilizing network connections. In other words overnight I
> could backup some portion of my AS/400 in a different location via some
> WAN link.
>
> Has anybody done something like this? Obviously it could take an immense
> amount of bandwidth, but is it feasible? Would it be possible utilizing
> some type of disk synchronization?
>
> Bob Randall
> Airxcel, Inc.
>