Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!root
From: root@uwspan.UUCP (Sue Peru Sr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Using SysV/AT filesystem on SysV/386
Message-ID: <3896@uwspan.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 06:03:05 GMT
References: <4178@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@uwspan.UUCP (Sue Peru Sr.)
Followup-To: comp.unix.microport
Organization: U of Wisconsin - Madison  Spanish Department
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+---- egs@killer.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen) writes in <4178@killer.UUCP> ----
| I don't really look forward to the idea of backing everything [117Mb]
| up to floppy to do the drive change.
+----

Speaking from several bad experiences (if it bites you once, its an accident,
if it bites you again, you are a fool!), WHENEVER that little voice inside
says ""I'd rather not back up this drive"" you can be 100% sure that
you will clobber the data completely.

Remember, Mr. Murphy gets his jollies by making SURE you follow each of
these phrases:

"I'm only going to update one of the unused filesystems with divvy...",
"I can use format to fix that bad sector without bothering anything"
"I can re-install drive 0 without backing up drive 1"

with the one word:

"oops" :-(

Believe me, it ***IS*** worth the bother to back it up onto hundreds of
floppies!  It is much more of a bother to type it all in again.

(At this point, tape backup salesmen start seeing $$$$ :-)

  -John (He's been there...) Plocher

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