data backup

You describe a box that cannot be networked. Therefore, you would need to find a supported tape drive (or perhaps a CD-RW - which does not seem likely, if your O/S won't even support a NIC). You can "mount" the tape drive just like a file system, and use Unix's "tar" command.

"man tar" for more help with that.

Another "odd" approach is to try "uucp", over a modem connection. You can "uucp" selected files to another Unix box that is on your network, and is being backed up.

"man uucp".
However, I suggest that SCO 3.11 "will" support a NIC, and will almost certainly support FTP. (Just remember the history of TCP/IP, networking, FTP, and all Unixes.) You miught need to do a bit more digging around in your system's "man" pages (if they're loaded). Once you get the box running on your network, then you can try several approaches. These include:
1 - loading the Unix agent of your favourite backup S/W
2 - FTP selected files to a Windoze box which is being backed up
3 - mounting a selected Unix file system on a Windoze box, then trying to back up that file system (most backup S/W will NOT let you do this, however)

Good Luck

If you use BackupExec you can load a UNIX agent. Then it could be backed up over the network.

Wow Sco 3.11...........
Your best bet would be to find an old travan tape drive to back up that system. The last resort method would be to take the hard drive from that system and mount it into a SCO 5 box, then back up the data.

How big are the files you need to backup? Does this Unix box have a tape drive in it? Do you want to load these files on another unix box or are you trying to get them to a windows box? If you don't have a tape drive you can tar these file to a floppy (or a bunch of floppies). If the file are small enough and yo are trying to get them to windows you can use the dos commands built into SCO (doscp, doscat, dosformat etc)if you need more help email me. I have a lot of SCO experience.

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