fault toleratant shell scripts

[Bill Vermillion]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:03:12AM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:01:02AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:

> > 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.

Show me an SGI with floppies in it!

> > 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.

What was interesting was I pulled the files off on an intel
machine, and the backup utility was done on an SGI.  The files were
all compressed but the utility didn't have any compressed
extension.  A 'file' command showed me that.

ISTR that I had to run dd with the conv=swab option - but memory is
a bit hazy.

> > 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.

Now that is a big jump.  I don't think I've ever done a 20-fold
space increase.

Bill

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