Archive utility on UNIX ? (Part 2 - followup (long-ish))

[K P Donnelly]

Edinburgh University Computing Service (in the person of 
G.Rule at uk.ac.edinburgh) have written a REAL archive system for Unix,
which has been in user service for about four months on their central 
Unix machine, a Sequent running Dynix.

This is to replace the archive on their EMAS machine which is going to
close down next year.  We couldn't have survived for the last ten years
without the archive system on EMAS.  I have just done a count and our 48
users have close to a gigabyte on archive compared to only 72M online.
Maybe this has something to do with the relative costs - we pay real
money for our computing.

Whether the cost of disc space is now so low that most users don't need
an archive system (and the rest can suffer the hassle of using tapes 
directly), I don't know.

   Kevin Donnelly,
   Forestry Commission Northern Research Station, Edinburgh