[Info-vax] Eisner? Down? (20 days later)

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Duncan Brown wrote:
> I really miss Eisner...
> 
> I wonder if, compared to a SWXCR, just letting drives die every once in 
> a blue moon and replacing them and restoring them from backups isn't a 
> better uptime strategy... that's the decision I came to on my system!
> 

It works.  IFF your backups are made at sufficiently frequent intervals 
that you don't lose anything important AND failures are not frequent!

If I needed 99.99% uptime, such a strategy would be risking my job!  And 
I don't think I would be using technology that's now at least ten years 
old!  The SWXCR is AT LEAST that old.

EISNER being a low/no budget volunteer based service, you have to expect 
some downtime.