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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/28/2018 09:43 AM, Bob Koehler 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.
> 
>     Yep.  In real life, I've done two restores for failed drives, and
>     dozens for "Bob, I need help. I accidentally deleted a file".
> 

Must not have been on VMS or versions would have saved the
day, right?   :-)

bill