On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob La Quey wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> David Brown wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> >>>> Also, unless you have a really fast internet connection, especially >>>> the uplink. You've going to realistically only be able to backup >>>> small amounts of "important" data. >>> >>> Exactly. I need to store entire virtual machines of development >>> environments, each of which is anywhere from 5-20GB. This isn't going to >>> work for any kind of upload service. >>> >>> >>> Gus >> >> Say one interested in long term storage. How does one save the >> hardware the virtual machines run on? Say for a few decades? >> >> People with serious archives must be addressing these problems but I >> know nothing of the answer. > > It's called "source code". > > It's one of the reasons why open source really is the only way to go. > > -a
Basically I agree ... but where does one stop? The entire context, compilers, linkers, build environments, data, metadata, etc. all of the stuff it actually takes to "make" something ultimately reaches back into the early history of computing. I am beginning to think there is only one real problem in computing that matters. Ir is called configuration management. BobLQ "we all have navels" -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
