Bill Davidsen wrote:
I would have
loved to have star 15 years ago. I wouldn't use any
solution today which required reading the whole data set to extract
things, was not portable, and which is not cost effective in terms of
timeto recovery. Star represents the best implementation ever written
of an obsolete method of backup, and I can't think of any reason other
than "someone paid me to do it" why I would use star or any similar
thing for backup.
Apologies, an entire sentence was deleted from the above by finger
check. The issue raised is that star backups are not bootable on any
machine I've found, and are unsuitable for "system backups" for that
reason. ISO CDs are bootable on many machines, and AIX on IBM hardware
supports making bootable backup, which is what I was thinking for a
system backup.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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