Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!media-lab!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cs.columbia.edu!earl From: earl@cs.columbia.edu (Earl Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.rsts Subject: Re: Backup systems for a PDP-11/84 Message-ID: <1990Jul19.151755.19594@cs.columbia.edu> Date: 19 Jul 90 15:17:55 GMT References: <3026@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Reply-To: earl@division.columbia.edu (Earl Smith) Followup-To: comp.os.rsts Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Lines: 37 In article <3026@syma.sussex.ac.uk> stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter) writes: >From article , by sclubley@compulink.co.uk (Simon Clubley): > >> I am currently looking at replacing the backup system on my PDP-11/84 >> with a new one. I am looking at the possibility of using DAT or --- >> re-writable optical disks. Has anyone had any experience of using ------------------------- >> these backup devices under RSTS (will they even run under RSTS ?) >> and what kind of backup performance/reliability problems have you >> found ? >> >> Simon Clubley >> sclubley@cix.compulink.co.uk > > >You are in the UK, so you probably can hear me shouting > >GO FOR IT SIMON, GET AN EXABYTE!!! ------- ******************************************************************* ***** AN EXABYTE IS NEITHER DAT NOR RE-WRITABLE OPTICAL DISKS ***** ************ IT'S GOOD, BUT IT ISN'T WHAT HE ASKED FOR************* ******************************************************************* > >They work very well indeed, solve problems you did not know you had, and >are very very reliable. > >I can give it my unhesitating endorsement. > >Stephen Carter, Systems Manager, The Administration, >The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK >Tel: +44 273 678203 Fax: +44 273 678335 JANET: stevedc@uk.ac.sussex.syma >EARN/BITNET : stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk UUCP: stevedc@syma.uucp >ARPA/INTERNET: stevedc%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk > >(Ring for details?)