From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:23:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011171823.27527.dexen.devries@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=DOUSD+hWOOA069wkkEEKapOrzbTeLA9jDh7uF@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote:
> (...)
> I'd be very careful with vac -m and -a on Unix; both have been at the
> root of considerable data-loss on a unix venti for me. I'd recommend
> vac-ing tarballs, rather than using vac's on unix trees directly. But
> your mileage may vary...
could you please elaborate a bit about that data loss?
traversing symlinks breaks? some files not getting read by vac at all?
(I'm interested in using p9p vac+venti in similar manner, but on Linux w/ GNU
stuff)
--
dexen deVries
``One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.''
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-17 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 16:51 David Leimbach
2010-11-17 17:14 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-17 17:23 ` dexen deVries [this message]
2010-11-17 17:43 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-17 17:44 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-18 19:40 ` Bakul Shah
2010-11-18 19:44 ` dexen deVries
2010-11-17 17:24 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-22 15:56 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2010-11-22 20:35 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-23 4:21 ` Anthony Sorace
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