From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 13:22:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4512D37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:22:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C257243FBD for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 18nQ3k-0007fK-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:22:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:22:48 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <20030224212248.GD26172@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Andresen probably said: > Peter Radcliffe wrote: > >Personally I like having a long run of archived backups (I have > >backups going back about 4 years at this point), doing that with disk > >is not really cost effective. > Just out of curiousity, how many of your users come back after 4 years > asking for their deleted files? One, the most important one - me ! I've only had to resort to really old backups (a couple of years old) once or twice, but it was very useful and isn't much effort for me to keep backups that old. P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message