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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:22:48 -0500
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives
Message-ID:  <20030224212248.GD26172@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org>
References:  <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org>

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Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> probably said:
> Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> >Personally I like having a long run of archived backups (I have
> >backups going back about 4 years at this point), doing that with disk
> >is not really cost effective.
> Just out of curiousity, how many of your users come back after 4 years 
> asking for their deleted files?

One, the most important one - me !

I've only had to resort to really old backups (a couple of years old)
once or twice, but it was very useful and isn't much effort for me to
keep backups that old.

P.

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