Backups (was: /opt/ again)

1999-09-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:11:07 -0700, you wrote: Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 4:52:43 PM, Marc wrote: IBTD. Backups are to get a crashed system up again _FAST_. And this can be accomplished by dropping a single tape in. There comes a point where one loses more time restoring tape than from

Re: Backups (was: /opt/ again)

1999-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:39:19AM +, Marc Haber wrote: Considering one can install a fairly robust system (FreeBSD, Debian) over FTP/NFS in under an hour If a broadband internet connection is available, yes. That doesn't apply to all sites. Who said anything about an internet

Re: Backups (was: /opt/ again)

1999-09-15 Thread Anders Arnholm
Steve Lamb wrote: Depends on what you have on there. If it is stuff that is easily replaced from source, recompile. I'd backup the sources, not the programs themselves It's almost always faster to recreate everything (idenical) from back that from something else. (I suppost don't have any

Re: Backups (was: /opt/ again)

1999-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:04:01PM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Depends on what you have on there. If it is stuff that is easily replaced from source, recompile. I'd backup the sources, not the programs themselves It's almost always faster to recreate everything