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Date:      Tue, 03 Mar 1998 08:10:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        sbabkin@dcn.att.com
Cc:        grog@lemis.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, jdn@acp.qiv.com, blkirk@float.eli.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: SCSI Bus redundancy...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980303081000.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE4132CE@dcn71.dcn.att.com>

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On 03-Mar-98 sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote:
>> ----------
>> 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).
 
I stopped using verbatim when their 8" SS-SD floppies would grind the drive
head to oblivion in weeks, vs. Dysan years.  DAT is as reliable as rain in
Portland OR.  It is most likely to be there, but...

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG                      Voice:   503.799.2313

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