From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3df301650806301311h790e3240ida2e007cf16e4d01@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:11:07 -0500 From: "michael block" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: cfd14a92-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Eris Discordia wrote: > Fossil/Venti, however brilliant it may look like to the code junkie, does > not offer anything for me but added complexity. i'm using p9p venti on linux, and it's been a total breeze to configure and administer. the utility of hist and yesterday in my opinion far outweigh the couple megabytes of memory that venti needs to be running all the time (i run it on my desktop machine, not a dedicated file server). i'm curious to know what backup system you're using that is simpler than venti. my interest in plan 9, inferno, octopus, &c stems mainly from my using venti for backups and finding it to be far better that anything unix had to offer. so it you really do have a backup system simpler and more robust than venti, i'd love to try it out -- i apologize in advance if gmail has in anyway mutilated this messege. stay beautiful!