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

[Bob Koehler]

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.

   Yep.  In real life, I've done two restores for failed drives, and
   dozens for "Bob, I need help. I accidentally deleted a file".