From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 3 08:03:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00829 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:03:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA00812 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:02:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 268 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 1998 16:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-030198 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 08:10:00 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Subject: RE: SCSI Bus redundancy... Cc: grog@lemis.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, jdn@acp.qiv.com, blkirk@float.eli.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message