On May 19, 19:24, Tony Duell wrote:
> Unfortunately, I don't have a basement. Wish I did, I'd have more space
> for classic computers :-)...
>
> > yesterday afternoon I made several hundred dollars babysitting
someone's
> > WinNT box, coaxing its 5-gig Travan cart tape backup unit to
> > retrieve one 13K file, and that took about three hours total
>
> But if what I find when I leave my machine room and get into the 'real
> world' is machines running Lusedoze that take 3 hours to recover one 13K
> file (heck, my calculator is faster than that), then I am not sure I want
> to 'get out more' :-)
It could be worse. Our campus filestore has gotten so big so fast that the
backup technology installed couldn't keep up. At one point, it was taking
25 hours to do one day's backup, so *recovering* anything was not an option
to be undertaken lightly :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sat May 19 2001 - 16:13:08 BST