Re: [MiNT] sparemint and atariforge

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

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