RE: tlug: Server Status

["3Web - Jonathan Byrne" <jq@example.com>]

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>Ken Harada, Jon Byrne, Chris Sekiya(*), Scott Stone(*),
                          ^^^

People call me a lot of things, but that's not one of them :-)

I was just reading that the sendmail 8.9 beta will be released on Monday,
and the final is expected in early April.   I guess that will give us an
ideal chance for building an rpm and applying it to our server.  8.9 is
supposed to have a bunch of new anti-spam tools.


>been thinking, TAPE BACKUP IS NEEDED.


I agree completely.  What kind of drive do you have in mind?  DAT, or
something else?  At home I use a Conner (now Seagate) SCSI drive that is
native 2 GB, up to 4 GB with compression.  It runs 25 - 30 meg per minute on
a Fireport 20 and has been completely reliable for over 2 years.  This drive
is now also available in an 8 GB version.  The external one is a bit steep,
about 75,000 yen at T-Zone, but a tape drive with enough capacity to let us
do an unattended backup on one tape is going to set us back a bit.   I'm not
sure if internal versions are available, but could check.  I would imagine
they are.   I'm not sure how this compares price-wise to DAT.   4 mm DAT
maybe wouldn't be too much more, but how much can you fit on one tape?

Jonathan Byrne <E-mail:jq@example.com>
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>

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