Jeff Kell wrote:
> How large would a disk image of the backup be? suitable to ftp down to
> a healty laptop or out of the question?  Anybody got a 918 with a
> 100TX LANIC? :-)

And I responded:
> Welllllll, the disk image of the tape is 452992 sectors, which is
> 115,965,952 bytes, or about 116MB.

To which Jeff replied:
> Hmmm... assuming something speaking DHCP on the wire and even a slow
> 10Mb PCMCIA Ethernet card, about 3 minutes from plug in, DHCP renew,
> ftp, DHCP release, unplug.  Not bad at all.  I've seen HPUX patch depots
> bigger than that (why in the hell don't they compress those things?).

I read an interesting description of a sort algorithm once that did
instantaneous sorts -- but the set-up and output times were *really* bad.

Jeff's "3 minutes" sounds great!  You just have to fly to Cupertino (where
our LAN is) with your laptop first (don't forget to dunk it in water while en
route to protect it from cosmic rays).

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