Bob La Quey wrote:
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Brown wrote:
[snip]
Also, unless you have a really fast internet connection, especially
the uplink. You've going to realistically only be able to backup
small amounts of "important" data.
Exactly. I need to store entire virtual machines of development
environments, each of which is anywhere from 5-20GB. This isn't going to
work for any kind of upload service.
Gus
Say one interested in long term storage. How does one save the
hardware the virtual machines run on? Say for a few decades?
People with serious archives must be addressing these problems but I
know nothing of the answer.
It's called "source code".
It's one of the reasons why open source really is the only way to go.
-a
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