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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.
> ...

Why not use a CDROM jukebox and the CDROMS put out by Walnut Creek @ US$25
a throw?

The hardware for n x 600 megs would be a lot cheaper than disk space and
Walnut Creek releases CDROMS that cover a number of the archives that
archie shadows about 4 times a year.

All that you'd need to keep on disk is the newer stuff for each of the
archives (plus pointers to the CDROM stuff), and much of this would be
flushed each quarter.  Of course, this would require somebody to write
software to drive it so that us users wouldn't know or care whether the
file we wanted was on the CDROM or on disk.  While the CDROM access time is
slower than a hard disk, it can't be slower than the US link.

Rob

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