On Wednesday 20 March 2019 16:14:26 Moses McKnight wrote: > On 3/20/19 3:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 March 2019 15:29:10 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Moses McKnight wrote: > >>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:45:42 -0500 > >>> From: Moses McKnight <mo...@mcktex.com> > >>> Reply-To: EMC developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > >>> To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor > >>> > >>> On 3/20/19 1:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>> Now we know of two victims. Stuart and I. :( > >>> > >>> Well, that would explain why it didn't get removed from > >>> distributions! 2 glitches out of 2 million installs (<-random > >>> number), and it is the official text editor for Gnome. > >>> > >>> I suspect a third person probably had a glitch, and he fixed it - > >>> which is why no one else has ever had a glitch with it. ;-) > >>> > >>> I've used it for many years myself and use it pretty much daily > >>> still and have never had it corrupt anything. > >>> > >>> Moses > >> > >> I use gedit frequently, and at one time (maybe 2 years ago) I had > >> it corrupt a file (multiple pastes scattered throughout the file), > >> but since then I have not had a re-occurance, I do suspect that > >> this bug (which might be WM dependent) has been fixed > > > > That makes 3, and thats much more recent than my last session which > > was at least 4, maybe 5 years back. Your description, Peter, fits it > > to a T. > > Now y'all are making me nervous! Now what did I do with my backup > tapes... > Tapes? I've been using amanda, with virtual tapes on a big hd for over a decade, and have found 2 things:
1: The hard drive is at least 10,000% more dependable 2: The virtual tape is no more complex than an array of directories on the hard drive, and because the hard drive is random access, its about that same 10,000% faster when you need to recover something. Only if you want archival, off site storage of business data in case the IRS comes calling, should you resort to tapes, and then I'd seriously consider the only slightly increased cost of a hard drive on a per gigabyte stored, use of hard drives you fill up, unmount and take offsite. The first time an offsite tape pukes, it could cost you a lot more than the cost of a much more dependable hard drive. Here, I'm 100% hobbiest, so the 60 days worth of vtapes on a 2T drive satisfies my major worries as I can lose a drive, run up to Staples and pickup another, do a bare metal install with the LCNC LiveCD, get the amanda home dir from the backup, get my wrapper stuff from the backups image of /Genes-Amanda-Helper.061 then install amanda from its source, get the amanda database data and configs that generated last nights backup, recover the rest of it, and have that machine ready for tonights backup long before its due to start. You can't begin to do that with real tapes. You may have been kidding about the tapes, but I'm not. Basicly I'm lazy, computers are programmable, so why should I sweat it when they can do a much better job at a repetitive thing like doing a backup every night? It absolutely makes zero sense for me to do it. All driven by a cron job, I don't worry about it getting done, nor do I have to babysit it, it just gets done every night, and if I fall over before sunup, it will continue to be done until someone kills the power to these machines. Since my missus is computer illiterate, crippled up and can't get to them anyway, that would probably be up to one of my boys who are all swimming or rescue boating in the Platte River right now. And despite my preaching about linux, are all running winderz on their home machines. And thats my $0.02 on the subject. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
