From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 3 07:11:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA22660 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:11:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (cagw1.att.com [192.128.52.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA22653 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:11:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by cagw1.att.com; Tue Mar 3 09:35 EST 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com (dcn71.dcn.att.com [135.44.192.112]) by caig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id JAA20913 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:42:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:44:54 -0500 Message-ID: To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, blkirk@float.eli.net, jdn@acp.qiv.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, grog@lemis.com Subject: RE: SCSI Bus redundancy... Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:44:50 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > From: Simon Shapiro[SMTP:shimon@simon-shapiro.org] > > > It's still a lot less work than put everything to tape, drop current > > filesystems, drop current logical volumes, drop RAID group, create > > new RAID group, create new logical volumes, create new filesystems, > > restore everything from tape :-) > > If the tape still works, and is readable (have some good horror > stories on > dump/restore to tell). > I did nod added it to not make it too horrorous :-) Yes, I personally do not like tapes very much. DAT tapes seem to be reliable if you dispose the tapes after about 100 write-read cycles but even with them I had a completely terrible story when during restoring the tape was torn in drive (Archive drive and Verbatim tape). -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message