12 May
2007
12 May
'07
4:31 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
Just now catching up on the list after being too busy (eg., removing
foot from mouth, among other things) for a while, and as it happens, I
just the other day was reading the 3B2 FAQ and noted that the
little.nhlink.net 3B2 archive maintained by Bob Martel had somehow been
lost. Happily I had made a mirror some years ago which was still intact,
so I'd like to announce that it is now available at
ftp://popeye.dragonsweb.org/mirrors/little.nhlink.net/pub/att .
I think Bob has some additional material, but he's been trying to
restore from old 60 and 120M backup tapes and been having some
difficulties there.
I found rsync about the simplest way to preserve time and date stamps,
file permissions, etc.
jbdigriz
Has anyone
else noticed that ftp search services like archie seem to
have disappeared
The web as subsumed all of this, in an inferior fashion, IMHO.
You will notice that bitsavers looks exactly the same as it did as
an anonymous ftp site on its previous host.
Should we be working to archive large FTP
software repositories?
Absolutely! And try to find old backups that you have.
Make sure to use something that can preserve file dates of the files.
The old recursive ftp programs didn't do this.