Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3666 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Monday 2005-03-07 at 04:34 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

> > > ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/

> > I tried that site and that exact path (that's the only one I tired), and
> > that didn't work.  I had used that server most of the time for my YOU
> > processing.  Maybe there's some additional software in place on the regular
> > 
> 
> The actual path you would need to use is
> <blahblah>/discontinued/<arch>/updates/<version>/


Are you sure? I looked at the path YOU in my 9.1 uses, and the 
"<arch>/updates/<version>/" is not there. YOU knows and expects to add 
that part.

> 
> >     So, and here I'm drifting a bit, but not too much.  When is SuSE going
> > to get the equivalent of a Windows ASR backup?  I lost my Windows machine at
> > 
> 
> Probably when someone who really wants/needs it, and could actually write such
> a thing, gets around to writing it. This is definitely one big area where
> Linux is way behind the competition, though the argument probably will be made
> that, with mass storage media so cheap now, RAID is within reach of everyone.
> I'll buy that argument the day that all mass storage devices are hot-pluggable
> (without having to pay high-end server prices to get it).

Er... no. No administrator would substitute a backup for a raid. Raid is
certainly safer than single disks, but there is simply no excuse for not
having a backup scheme. Absolutely no excuses!

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson