From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E6FC0B8.1070205@nas.com> From: Jack Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] hardware support for the fs kernel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:20:24 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7f3ce468-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Geoff Collyer wrote: > Actually Jim Robinson's suggestion doesn't meet my needs (or desires, > anyway). Magnetic media don't provide the permanence of optical > media. Mirrors aren't a substitute for backups. I really like the idea from the wiki (I believe) of creating CD-sized Venti arenas so you can make semi-permanent backups of the arenas and leave the archive alone (assuming you can maintain enough space). Plus, because a full arena never changes, you only have to burn it to CD once. It's like the perfect incremental backup. I suppose it would be trivial to automate the process. Hmm.... -Jack