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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: bimonthlies
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 13:20:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 13:20:16 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Apr-85 13:20:16 EST
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The experiment with doing full backups bimonthly instead of monthly
having proved reasonably successful, it has been made permanent.
The /backup/weeklies control file has been rebuilt appropriately,
and various other minor changes (notably, renaming "monthly" to
"bimonthly") have been made.  Also, as a recognition of reality,
the weekly tape sets will soon be relabelled to include the now-
omnipresent "overflow" tapes as part of the basic tape sets.
Finally, the custom of occasionally saving a full backup of the
usr and root filesystems has been dropped -- we never used them,
and they play no part in disaster recovery -- and the tapes freed
up through occasional rotation of the A+B tape sets will now be
used as replacements for the daily-backup tapes.  There has been
no systematic arrangement for replacement of the daily tapes until
now, and some of them are pretty old.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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