I copy the data arenas to another machine and when they are full (500mb per arena) I burn them to cd. I us this script to copy the arenas http://plan9.bell-la

I copy the data arenas to another machine and when they are full (500mb per arena) I burn them to cd. I us this script to copy the arenas http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/rc/vbackup http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/rc/vbackup It's slightly sloppy in that I could just append the unwritten bytes but for < 500mb who cares, its a 1gbe after all. Venti dumps give me a full history of file changes. On the plan9 central server one can browse the daily snapshots for 10+ years of plan9 development. It also coalesces duplicate blocks so storing 20 copies takes as much room as one. Venti is available for plan9 and Lunix. i accidentally wiped $home this week, then : cp `{yesterday $home}/* $home got it all back