Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!olson From: olson@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: dump onto OD Message-ID: <1989Dec11.084425.1890@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 11 Dec 89 08:44:25 GMT References: <130043@gore.com> <5782@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: olson@guitar.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson) Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 11 In article <5782@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit) writes: >Theoretically, yes. Practically, probably not. If you are doing >a full restore, I'd guess something just over 2 quadrillion disk swaps. >I sure don't have the patience for that... You can say that again. I tried it once ... was swapping disks every few seconds until I gave it up (after about 3 swaps). bob Bob Olson University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Internet: olson@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet|convex|pur-ee}!uiucdcs!olson