From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi  Wed Jun 30 10:10:02 2010
To: mint <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
From: Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] sparemint and atariforge
Reply-To: Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>
X-Mailer: MyMAIL Rev:1.94.13761 (Atari/(STiK/STinG/GlueSTiK))
X-Hardware: Atari Milan
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:04:23 +0200 (GMT)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Message-Id: <001471eb.01b43262d3f7@smtp.freeola.net>
References: <4C2B0BD4.28165.AA363@rfburrows.ymail.com>
In-Reply-To: 4C2B0BD4.28165.AA363@rfburrows.ymail.com
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
X-original-sender: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk
Precedence: bulk
List-help: <mailto:ecartis@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=help>
List-unsubscribe: <mailto:mint-request@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=unsubscribe>
List-Id: <mint.lists.fishpool.fi>
X-List-ID: <mint.lists.fishpool.fi>
List-subscribe: <mailto:mint-request@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=subscribe>
List-owner: <mailto:tjhukkan@fishpool.fi>
List-post: <mailto:mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o5UEA1xs017416

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:18:12 -0400, "Roger Burrows" <rfburrows@ymail.com> wrote:
> On 30 Jun 2010 at 21:45, Paul Wratt wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Rob Mahlert <rmahlert@charter.net> wro
> te:
> > > Bad day for my host..á if you had issues accessing AtariForge or the
> > > SpareMiNT servers.
> > > Rob
> >
> > whats the feeling about off-site mirrors/backups for certain parts of
> > the servers (sparemint is already mirrored, just need an alternate
> > frontend site that is not on either server), even if there is an
> > offsite url that allows direct access to anything mirrored (for cases
> > like above)
> >
> > I would like to see the cvs available, even if its readonly (but there
> > are systems for syncing)
> >
>
> Seems overkill to me ... I don't think a (say) 24 hour outage is going to
> put a
> crimp in MiNT development or Atari usage.  Just my 2c.
>
> Roger

The isp used by my former employer had us working from a duff drive
for several months before it died. The backups were not complete as
a result. We lost data but luckily because we weren't fully up and
running from that server we didn't lose too much.

It does happen.

Peter