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- From: jmalcolm@sura.net (Joseph Malcolm)
- Subject: Re: Managing a Terabyte (was: Re: Dumping a Gigabyte )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.153220.18246@darwin.sura.net>
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- References: <1993Jan19.135733.838@walter.cray.com> <1993Jan20.173950.20531@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan21.050327.16863@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:32:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.050327.16863@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
- > I don't see that it is necessary to get rid of backups. But it is
- >necessary to be able to do them on a continuous, background basis.
- >This is certainly possible. Multics did it in the 1960s; UNIVAC
- >mainframes had it in the 1970s. Unfortunately, UNIX, DOS, and the Mac
- >traditionally have weak backup tools, and that's all anyone knows any more.
-
- Perhaps you could explain how Multics did backups? (Then
- we might be able to continue the proud Unix tradition of
- stealing ideas from Multics.)
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