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IMHO, if you run fossil in your laptop you usually make
it archive on your venti file server, which is supossed
to be reliable and backed up (eg. by using devfs).

If you run both a laptop and a real file server, I've
found it useful to keep a fossil with just snapshots
(no archives) in the laptop and keep it replica(1)ted
from your real file server, that makes archives too.

hth

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> If I were installing a new system, I would run fossil.
> [... good reasons deleted]

OK, I'm sold.  But I find the concept of backing up a
venti server onto another venti server makes my brain hurt.

- if you lost the venti partition on the laptop, how would
  you restore it from the other server?
- looking at /sys/src/cmd/venti/backup.example why do you
  have to subtract blockSize from the arena offset?

-- Richard
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