[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-08-19 15:31, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> At the University we used tapes until it reached the point where a full
> backup or restore would take more than 12 hours.  At that point we moved
> to mirrored disks including one remote.

Which is fine, until you want to recover that file that was deleted a 
while ago, at which point you realize that mirrored disks are not the 
same thing as backups... Two different solutions, to two different problems.

   Johnny

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