On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:23:02PM EST, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris
Jones wrote:
But then I started thinking .. what if for instance I had to scale my
effort from my single system to a large data center with hundred of
hosts .. with different backup
2008/11/6 Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nothing wrong with rapid prototyping. :)
That's one requirements capture methodology, certainly. Actually,
there's quite a lot wrong with rapid prototyping, but there's quite a
lot wrong with all other requirements capture methodologies too, so
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim Rowe
wrote:
Actually, there's quite a lot wrong with rapid prototyping, but there's
quite a lot wrong with all other requirements capture methodologies too,
so rapid prototyping is up there with the rest of them.
Sounds like what Churchill said about
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:42:43 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris
Jones wrote:
I wrote this in bash and although it's worked w/o a glitch for the last
couple of months .. I'm not comfortable with .. the look feel of it.
Engineering rule
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:11:37 -0500, Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wrote a trivial backup script that does the following:
If tonight is the first day of the month:
save last month's archive
do a full backup of the system
else:
save last night's differential backup
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:12:08 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:42:43 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Engineering rule #1: if it works, don't fix it.
Especially if it handles your backups ;-)
Well, if it handles your backups it doesn't work. It just pretends until
you really
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:11:17PM EST, Ben Finney wrote:
Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am thinking of rewriting it in python using OOP tactics/strategy.
Please advise.
I advise you not to have the object-oriented programming hammer as
your only tool, because it's easy to
2008/11/6 Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Begs the question .. how do I tell what is an object-oriented vs. a
procedural problem?
Practice, largely, so you're doing the right thing (provided you don't
trust your /real/ backup data to a tutorial program). If you find that
the program is at its
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
wrote:
Well, if it handles your backups it doesn't work. It just pretends until
you really *need* the backed up data. ;-)
That's why a backup system needs to be absolutely simple as possible. Avoid
complicated formats, a straightforward
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris
Jones wrote:
But then I started thinking .. what if for instance I had to scale my
effort from my single system to a large data center with hundred of
hosts .. with different backup policies .. what if I had to take into
account time slots where the
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:12:40PM EST, Tim Rowe wrote:
2008/11/6 Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Begs the question .. how do I tell what is an object-oriented vs. a
procedural problem?
Practice, largely, so you're doing the right thing (provided you don't
trust your /real/ backup data
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris
Jones wrote:
I'm one of them that need to get their hands dirty a bith .. lack the
power of abstraction. Need to do some building before I can specify.
Nothing wrong with rapid prototyping. :)
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:21:38PM EST, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
wrote:
Well, if it handles your backups it doesn't work. It just pretends until
you really *need* the backed up data. ;-)
That's why a backup system needs to be
I wrote a trivial backup script that does the following:
If tonight is the first day of the month:
save last month's archive
do a full backup of the system
else:
save last night's differential backup
back up all changes relative to the current month's full backup
endif
I
Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am thinking of rewriting it in python using OOP tactics/strategy.
Please advise.
I advise you not to have the object-oriented programming hammer as
your only tool, because it's easy to then treat every problem as
though it were a nail.
What you
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris
Jones wrote:
I wrote this in bash and although it's worked w/o a glitch for the last
couple of months .. I'm not comfortable with .. the look feel of it.
Engineering rule #1: if it works, don't fix it.
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