Date: Tue, 2 May 95 12:45:26 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, obrien@leonardo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Compress dumps? Message-ID: <9505021845.AA08223@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505021212.HAA06002@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at May 2, 95 07:12:31 am
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> > Assuming you don't look at those tapes in a months time and say "hey! I > > don't need to buy more tapes! I'll just use these redunant tapes...". > > If you still need your tapes in a month's time they're archival, not > backups. 8-). Pick any time one day less than your backup rotation period to mean "a long time". Typically, my intermediate backups are incremental, which pushes the time out considerably before the full backups would be archival, especially considering a tape rotation of the monthlies. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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