vasoll@okstate.UUCP (10/31/84)
Has anyone out there written an archiver that writes expired notes to tape instead of another notesfile? The procedure I was thinking of was this: for each notesfiles in LIST do for each note in THISONE do if THISONE is expired dd note and responses to tape make entry in online "archive" notesfile as follows: subject is same as original Was written by <the original author> Was archived on <tape number> on mm/dd/yy delete original note fi od od If no one has done anything like this, I think I will give it a shot. Mark Vasoll Oklahoma State University Computer Science Department
brad@bradley.UUCP (11/02/84)
A way I do it is to archive the stuff on to disk. When disk gets full move the 'oldnotes' directory to 'oldnotes.MMDD' (or something simialiar) at which I archive the directory on to tape. If I need something off of archive, I just move the current directory (pain in the rear if you forget), and restore the archive directory, and then mv 'oldnotes.MMDD' 'oldnotes'. (Assuming you have enough disk space for both, otheriwse you have to archive the other ones or mount another filesystem on 'oldnotes') The only thing I can think that would be nice. Is a way to switch to alternate archive, that way you wouldn't have to move them (the directories), and a way ( I maybe missing something somewhere) to get a print out of just the index page of an archive. Bradley Smith UUCP: {cepu,ihnp4,noao,uiucdcs}!bradley!brad Text Processing ARPA: cepu!bradley!brad@UCLA-LOCUS Bradley University PH: (309) 676-7611 Ext. 446 Peoria, IL 61625