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

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>In article <plrbbe$q5$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
><bqt at softjar.se> writes: 
>
>> 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.
>
>Right.  However, a backup will only recover a file deleted by mistake if 
>it had been created before the last backup.

If you could write a backup script that could recover the files that have
not been created yet, THEN you'd have something big.
--scott
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