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robt@agsm.unsw.edu.au (Rob Trevor) writes:

>In article <johnd.717206891@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au>,
>johnd@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (John Dodson) wrote:
>> ...
>> Also, in a recent article Geoff Huston wrote:
>> >shadowing works if you have the diskspace - and archie is running
>> >pretty much to the brim :-(
>> 
>> Then have a "find" script that removes things that have not been accessed for
>> say 6 months ! (or whatever is a convenient period) you may be surprised how
>> much disk space this free's & the fact that it is no longer on archie will
>> obviously not cause excessive ftp traffic to the US !
>> 
>> Certainly be more selective about what you archive if disk is such a problem.
>> ...

You would want to be certain that there were other copies somewhere first.
Imagine if everyone did this leaving no copies of archival stuff more than
6mos old.

Perhaps you need one of those Ubeaut Epoch systems.

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