[ On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 15:18:05 (-0500), C. Chan wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Restoring /
>
> Also Sprach Greg A. Woods:
>
> > There's nothing "religious" about it, at least not since Elizabeth
> > Zwicky published her study of the reliability and capabilities of
> > various backup programs.....
> >
> > Elizabeth Zwicky, "Torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs:
> > Things You Ought to Know But Probably Would Rather Not," LISA V
> > proceedings, San Diego, 1991, pp. 181-185.
> >
>
> Note the date: 1991. Some things have changed then, like the introduction
> of journaled filesystems, snapshotting, ACLs, and so on. It's still worth
> reading but please look at the version numbers of the utilities
> under review. I'd welcome any references to a more recent review on
> the same topic.
The point is that there's no "religion" about this issue any more. If
you're not using the systems already tested and described in the paper
then you get the tools (they're still available too, though they are
also realtively easily reproduce using the descriptions in the paper)
and you test what you have. The results should be entirely scientific
(unless you deviate in your procedures and mess up your measurements).
--
Greg A. Woods
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