Re: Hardware failure at ftp.funet.fi

From: Christopher A Bongaarts (bong0004_at_tc.umn.edu)
Date: 2001-09-12 16:22:30

As Marko Mäkelä once put it so eloquently:

> There is a severe hardware failure at ftp.funet.fi, probably something in
> the disk system.  I hope that /pub/cbm is not affected, and even if it is,
> they do make backups.  I'll write an announcement when the problem has
> been fixed.

There's one advantage to distributing CD-ROM iso's of the site: should 
something go wrong with the backups, at least we'll have lots of
copies of the data as of the date the iso was made.

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