From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 11:52:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA12563 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 11:52:42 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA12555 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 11:52:37 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA08223; Tue, 2 May 95 12:45:28 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505021845.AA08223@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Compress dumps? To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Tue, 2 May 95 12:45:26 MDT Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, obrien@leonardo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505021212.HAA06002@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at May 2, 95 07:12:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.