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

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-08-28, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> 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?   :-)

Some developers would go quite mad with the number of file versions they
could create in a day, and back when disk space was scarce nightly jobs
which did a PURGE/KEEP=n were quite common.


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