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

[Dave Froble]

On 8/28/2018 10:52 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>

Much grief can follow DELETE *.*;*

:-)