James Knott said the following on 01/29/2012 07:41 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Make sure you back up/etc/lvm/*
*sigh* Sometimes I miss floppy disks for taking snapshots of just one or two config files like that*sigh*
USB flash drives are cheap and can hold a lot of things. Another trick I've used is to simply email them to myself and leave them on the server. One problem with floppies is they're not reliable in the long term and often short term. Blank CDs or DVDs are another option.
Knowing that intellectually is one thing ... What did floppies cost? About less than $1. Remember the early Star Trek episodes where Spock had a stack of data cards that looked very like 3.5" floppies. I know, intellectually, that a spindle of 50 CDs costs maybe $5 ... $10 at the outside. DVD perhaps a bit more, but even at one tenth the cost of a floppy it seems odd to put less than 1M of data on something that can hold nearly 1G. I've never understood why those dinky credit-card sized CDs are so expensive! But at least you can write on CDs. USB drives seem to be about $1/G these days. I've got lots of trade-show hand-outs at less than 1G but I'm going to have to white-ex them and write a number then have a card index to tell me which one is which. One config per floppy made so much sense ... ____ ___ ____ _ _ __/\__/ ___|_ _/ ___| | | |_/\__ \ /\___ \| | | _| |_| \ / /_ _\ ___) | | |_| | _ /_ _\ \/ |____/___\____|_| |_| \/ -- 'A virus is what people who can't spell pneumonia get.' -- Eric Morecombe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org