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Sources include:

Mailing list

Point your web browser to http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=networker&A=1 , enter your email address & name, then click on the ``leave the list" button. Further questions are answered at http://www.temple.edu/Listserv/.

Mailing List archives

http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.html . The wildheart.org site has been taken down. The archive is now on temple.edu. For temple.edu, each user must set her/his own pair of tokens. Instructions are on the home page of the mailing list above.

Script archive

There is an older script archive available at http://www.backupcentral.com, but somebody was working on a newer one.

Curtis says: Where did the script archive go?

The NetWorker Journal

This is a new resource (Jan 01), but it promises five issues a year for a subscription cost of $300. This may sound like a lot, but it looks like it might actually be worth it, given the importance of your data, and the amount of money you are already spending on backup and recovery.

Frequently Asked Question List (FAQ)

If you are reading this, you know how to get it. But if you'd like a more current copy, it will be posted to the mailing list on a monthly basis. It is also available via the web at http://www.backupcentral.com/networker-faq.html

http://www.legato.com

Useful information at this site include manuals in PDF format, White Papers & Tech Notes, & the schedule for Legato training. This is also the location of their Tech Dialog database, which is a subset of their own internal support database. It requires a password, which is included in the price of support.

http://www.backupcentral.com

Deals with backing up & restoring data in general. Articles, links to resources, maintained by W. Curtis Preston, the author to _[http://www.backupcentral.com/thebook.html UNIX Backup & Recovery]_ (O'Reilly, 1999). One of the best web sites about data backup & recovery despite the fact there aren't many sites covering this topic.

comp.arch.storage

It may be my newsfeed, but I have found this to be a very low-volume newsgroup. Less than 10 posts a day. The FAQ for this group (which was last updated in 1998) can be found on Deja.com at http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=316722147&CONTEXT=953588547.688717851&hitnum=3 and http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=316722170&CONTEXT=953588547.688717851&hitnum=25

(Note, with the older postings on Deja being unavailable at this writing, you may wish to refer to the HTML versions archived at http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/arch-storage/part1.html and www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/arch-storage/part2.html)

ftp.legato.com

Secured. This security also seems not to play nice with some firewalls: to upload files to the /incoming directory, I had to go to a site outside our corporate firewall & do the upload from there.