Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 UX & 2410 Graphics Adapter Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 91 20:16:49 GMT References: <2307@tekig7.MAP.TEK.COM> <2621@urbana.mcd.mot.com> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 30 In article <2621@urbana.mcd.mot.com> dfields@radium.urbana.mcd.mot.com (David Fields) writes: >>The idea of making everybody buy a tape drive to get UNIX is IMHO crazy. > >The idea of having a unix system with out a reasonable method to do >backups is crazy. Or you plan to by a read/write optical drive? > >In case it's not obvious, I don't consider backing up a >=100Meg >drive to floppies reasonable. I also consider not backing up the >system as stupid. > >Dave Fields // Motorola Computer Group // dfields@urbana.mcd.mot.com What I think Dave means is that unlike AmigaDOS, it's a major mess to re-install UNIX completely from scratch if something dies.... a REAL mess, lost data aside. There are so many programs interacting and so much work required to install various things (example: you port a new version of GCC and have to modify a lot of files all over the place), that it would take days to get it all back on line. So I would also strongly suggest getting a tape drive. Backing up to floppies is not reasonable. -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA