On Fri, 10 May 1996 17:16:10 EDT, you said:
> to the spare disk.  Ugly, but it works.  Operations says that VMBackup does
> spend a lot of time when it hits those notebook disks (500, 1000 and 1500
> cylinders) so your estimates sound plausible.  Our users don't like us to
 
What we do here at Virginia Tech is give each list that has a notebook its
own seperate minidisk - so for instance, for a list WOMBAT-L, we'd have
a directory entry
 
USER WOMBAT-L etcetcetc
MDISK 191 3390 4 etcetc
 
and then Listserv has a 'LINK WOMBAT-L 191 419 MW' or similar, so it's the
"real" owner of the disk.
 
Your mileage may vary, but it works for us for 300+ lists and about 50K
messages a day.  Oh.. we use VMBACKUP to do the backups...
 
 
 
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Engineer
                                Virginia Tech