--- Adam Bower abower@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
MyBBC still works as does my 386's. Bear in mind that these days we
are
pushing the laws of physics more and more to the limit that things
will
fail more. Perhaps I should buy a backup device at the same time.
It shouldn't be down to the laws of physics though, I have more of a complaint on overall quality seems to be declining and it is difficult to buy anything that is going to last more than a few years if it is based on intel hardware. I have noticed that out of all the machines at Zeus only the intel ones ever had hardware problems, all of the Sparcs, Alphas, HP9000s etc were perfectly OK.
I would also agree we have a lot of sparc kit here which works wonderfully, you missed Apple off of the cool hardware list btw :o)
I am tempted just to get the 40GB IBM from scan and be done with it.
I al going to partition it so linux has (across a couple of partitions) 30GB, then give openBSD 5GB and leave the rest unpartitioned until StegFS comes out for 2.4 kernel.
Do you not already own a CD-R drive? this should be adequate for most peoples backup needs. I must get around to writing a script that will back things up though as I am too lazy to run them manually!
Nope, not yet, on the list of to gets, need it to back things up! I'm looking for a sub �100 burn proof CDRW drive. and I will probably get a 50CD spindle and just put a tar of /home/freemadi with changes only. with a total backup one a week or month. I will also need to somehow back up some other larger directories, but I will work that one out nearer the time.
Thanks
D
Thanks
D
Adam
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