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... ---------- 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
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