[ale] rsync error

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 10:52 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Nothing wrong with 3B20s especially in comparison to the chain of hotels
> I once supported that ran Xenix 1.1 on AT&T 6300s (80286 processors).
> Doing tar backups to 5 1/4 inch floppies was so much fun...
> 
> That reminds me of another end user story:  
> We once had to restore one of these sites remotely so walked the end
> user through doing the required tar command and putting in the first
> floppy then replacing it with the second floppy when prompted about end
> of media.  We ended the call with "continue putting in floppies as
> prompted" then call us back when it is done.
> 
> A short while later the user called back and said "I was able to get 3
> of the floppies in the drive but I don't think I can fit any more."


Ouch!! And that person is now a CTO somewhere...


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