[Macpartners] Backup for lab machines

[Felix Kreisel]

Hi,
Retrospect is an evolving product, and the recent versions of  
Workgroup and Server Retrospect do support laptops. You would need to  
buy an add-on Proactive license for the server and set the laptop  
clients appropriately. We have not done this at PSFC, but it is out  
there.

When doing restores, you can revert a client to an earlier  
"snapshot", which is probably the equivalent of rsnapshot ( I don't  
know Unix).


On May 2, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Ben Kennedy wrote:

Hi all,

Is there a good tool for backups for a bunch of machines (both  
laptops and desktops)?  I've been using Retrospect, but I'm looking  
for something that is driven from the clients, rather than rely on  
the server to call up the clients to tell them to backup.

I also want something that maintains previous states, like  
rsnapshot.  Speaking of rsnapshot, I could write a custom script, but  
rsnapshot doesn't have the ability to write to a remote destination.   
I think I could work around that, but it would be nice if there was  
something already available.

Has any one else had trouble with rsync (which is used by rsnapshot)  
running on OS X?

Thanks,
Ben K

Felix Kreisel - Systems Engineer,
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT
617-253-8625   fjk at mit.edu