On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:27:50AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> > Secondly, I still use optical definitive storage from time to time
> > (disks go in a vault)... with KerGIS and others, and kerTeX, this still
> > fit 3 times on a CDROM. So...
>
> if you are using venti, there is no reason to re-archive closed arenas.
> (and there's no a priori reason that your optical backup must include
> history.)
Because I use CVS (not on Plan9), and I backup my CVS. So, sources with
history. I do not consider CDROM to be eternal. So there is a small
number kept, and the older is destroyed when the new one is burnt.
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