RE: tlug: Server Status

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, 3Web - Jonathan Byrne wrote:

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> 7ol : Craig Oda <craigoda@example.com>
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> >Ken Harada, Jon Byrne, Chris Sekiya(*), Scott Stone(*),
>                           ^^^
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> People call me a lot of things, but that's not one of them :-)
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> 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.
> 

neat.  Let's wait till it's stable :)

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> >been thinking, TAPE BACKUP IS NEEDED.
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> 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?
> 

a 4mm DAT drive can back up 4GB uncompressed if you use 120m tapes (2GB on
90m tapes).

> Jonathan Byrne <E-mail:jq@example.com>
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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