[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

[Richard Mancusi]

The original question had to do with tape backup.  I perhaps
inappropriately did not limit my comments to Linux.  This is a
Linux list and I made a mistake - sorry.  Frankly, the o.s. in
question seemed irrelevant for answering the question since
many drives and backup software packages are available for
and work similarly on several o.s.'s.

To reply to your comment, the idiots - oops sorry - programmers
I was referring to, use VMS.  It is a good o.s. - but may be
going away at the whim of HP.  There are tools available in VMS
but these folks are stuck in the past.

My responsibilities include Linux, HP-UX, VMS and M$.  The VMS
is slowly going away along with the "boys".

Again, sorry.  I will be more careful in the future.

Rich


On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:45:03 -0600, David Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> Richard Mancusi wrote:
> [...]
> > Individual files, often.  Some servers are for development.  These folks
> > always seem to forget to make a copy BEFORE altering the code.  Then
> > they move on to another project in mid-stream and eventually want
> > source from 10 days ago.
> 
> If you have people doing development without a version control system
> that they can manage themselves, they're amatures.  I want to say that I
> can envision cases where version control isn't important (like doing
> standard workstation builds that evolve over time) but I can't.  Even if
> all you version is a description of the build and a checksum or
> something, version control still seems useful.
> 
> I'm open to other ideas but if your developers haven't considered
> version control and rejected it for sound technical reasons, get them to
> use it.
> 
> 
> 
> Dave
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