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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/28/2018 11:13 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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 *.*;*
> 
> :-)
> 
> 

The equivalent of "rm -rf *"

Every OS has it's dirty little secrets.

bill