Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Distributing GenBank over the Internet Message-ID: <1989Dec15.182742.4777@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 15 Dec 89 18:27:42 GMT References: <1989Dec7.213027.8591@phri.nyu.edu> <573@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu> <1989Dec15.004724.16304@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Reply-To: roy@alanine.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC Lines: 16 Regarding wanting to regenerate old releases. No, I can't imagine anybody wanting to do that. As long as the current release is safe, I think that's all that's really critical. Actually, I take that back. On occassion, loci names change, or things get corrected. I could imagine cases where you once found something of interest but can't reproduce the search now. In that case, you might want to load up an old version of the database to make sure you aren't crazy, but I think that's stretching things a little bit. Your procedure of keeping two master copies of the database at two different sites, with each maintaining its own set of redundant backups tapes sounds appropriately paranoid. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"