fault toleratant shell scripts

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:01:02AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> And Apple - not known for cheap products - now sells a 3.5 Terabyte
> drive array for a list price of $10,999.

Lacie has 1TB (presumably, 4z250GB SATA) in a USB2/FW S400 box for $1200.

> You can get 49 Terabytes of storage in a standard 5 foot [42RU]
> rack.  And I remember the first big drives I saw.  About the size
> of a large Kenmore washing machine and they had 70MB.  Westinghouse
> had a room of them that looked more like the appliance section of
> the local Sears store.

You bet.

> > I *was* on site until something like 0130...
> 
> One I did like that I left at 130AM, and came back at 630AM as I
> figured the slow tape restore would be done about then.

Floppies.

> Much to my dismay, the tape drive physically failed, so the next
> day it was build up from ground zero, and then move the files
> from another system where I could at least read the tape and then
> ftp them over.

Yeah.

> Days like that you think "Why did I give up hardware for this
> software crap" :-0

I'm still up doing a drive upgrade on a laptop; 2GB to 40GB; praying
both laptops will boot the 40.

Cheers,
-- jra

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