Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265346AbTF1TgM (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:36:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265359AbTF1TgM (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:36:12 -0400 Received: from h80ad26a9.async.vt.edu ([128.173.38.169]:34944 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265346AbTF1TgK (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:36:10 -0400 Message-Id: <200306281950.h5SJoHHB001568@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Larry McVoy Cc: Scott McDermott , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:07:00 PDT." <20030628140700.GB6053@work.bitmover.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20030627145727.GB18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627163720.GF357@zip.com.au> <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627235150.GA21243@work.bitmover.com> <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030628001625.GC18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627205140.F29149@newbox.localdomain> <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030628040840.V9583@newbox.localdomain> <20030628140700.GB6053@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-489252917P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:50:17 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1343 Lines: 37 --==_Exmh_-489252917P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:07:00 PDT, Larry McVoy said: > I haven't had much luck with tape, I've found them to be fairly unreliable > and slow over the years. I've moved to using disk as backup and it works. > It worked quite nicely in this case, I had a handful of places I needed > random access to in order to fix up the problem. Tape would have sucked. One thing that tape gives you that most backup-to-disk don't is *OFFSITE* backup. Unless you're backing up over a fiberchannel or other network to another machine in a *REMOTE* building, some things can take out the whole enchilada. Ask the crew at the Uni of Twente NOC...... (For what it's worth, our offsite vault is about 2 miles from our machine room) --==_Exmh_-489252917P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+/fF5cC3lWbTT17ARAnOQAJ9vhF77aaXys2KvnCCFgDfyCh++BACg5l+U ZI/NKe1H2y7LjnyZfipwcr4= =79U0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-489252917P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/