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Re: backups on the news partition

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From: Jeff Makey
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:34
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In article <C0oAAq.Bu2@acsu.buffalo.edu> pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) writes:
>we backup our newspool and newslib just like most other partitions

Me too.  My 300Mb news disk contains nearly all news software and data
and is running about 60% full with my partial feed.  With five 1Gb
disks of "real" stuff on the network (each running above 90% full),
it's easier to keep news backed up than to make the effort to exclude it.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
    Disclaimer: All opinions are strictly those of the author.
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From: makey@VisiCom.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: backups on the news partition
Message-ID: <259@visicom.com>
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:34:42 GMT
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