[plug] Banks to switch to linux...

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:32, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> > 
> > 0.o *mouth drops open* no way.... surely nobody would be that dumb... uh 
> > well.. then again.. I had a bloke tell me the other day (quite proudly I 
> > might add) that he uses 5x 512mb flash memory USB key's for his daily 
> > backups....
> 
> The best one I had was a two tape backup that was done releigiously everyday. 
> After many months of backups, they were fiinally needed.
> 
> 
> "None of these backups are any good. How are they made?"
> 
> "Well we have to change tapes half way through, so instaead of waiting for the 
> computer to ask for the second tape, we let it run for a while and then take out 
> tape 1, put in tape 2 and go home. It is always finished in the nmorning."\
> 
> "How long hanve you been doing it this way?"
> 
> "Oh, about six months."
> 
> "Bugger!"
> 
> 
Bah.. they should have just used ext scsi, ext usb-ide or ext SATA

*ducks*
> Alex
> 
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