But in most BBSes that look unique I don't find so much activity in files department. Any pointers that could prove me wrong?
I'm not looking for anything particular. More about general feeling that t files sections with whatever niche/cliche idea behind the collection.. is managed with care by its sysop.So true, I tried to add something unique to my board which is added every now and then.
Pointers?Yep, it takes something unique to retain visits I guess :P.
But in most BBSes that look unique I don't find so much activity in files department. Any pointers that could prove me wrong?
While my BBS _has_ a file area, I've tended to figure that this is something that is just better done with the internet.
hollowone wrote to All <=-
I'm not looking for anything particular. More about general feeling
that the files sections with whatever niche/cliche idea behind the collection.. is managed with care by its sysop.
On one hand I agree /mostly/, but there is something to be said for the way some BBSes have a lot of retro archives indexed in the unique way a BBS does. Searching for files and reading through file descriptions on BBSes is a better experience for me than trawling through FTPs :)
Pointers?Yep, it takes something unique to retain visits I guess :P.
While my BBS _has_ a file area, I've tended to figure that this is somethi that is just better done with the internet.
While my BBS _has_ a file area, I've tended to figure that this is so that is just better done with the internet.
It all depends, my friend :) it all depends :>
I guess the important part is to keep good backups and preferably decent meta data.
And then some form of copies that are controlled by someone else, lest
our unfortunate demises lead to unfortunate data loss.
Well.. true admins don't do backups I heard back in the 90s :) fortunately
Chuckle.. I used to do backups until the tape drive decided it had had enough and would persistantly unspool tapes. After that all bets were
off. I had to many drives with to much data to back up effectively.
off. I had to many drives with to much data to back up effectively.
I remember when I used to make backups onto CD-Rs or DVD-Rs. And probably still have some of them stashed away at my brother's place.
burner that I had DOS drivers/software for, or sufficient space anywhere to create the image that would've needed to be assembled for burning.
I imagine, in that era, your choices were tape drives or a large handful of disks.
Spectre wrote to Adept <=-
Most of the drives were only 40, 60, 80s with a 120 and I can't recall what else now... it came out to ~5-600Mb at the time... even the tape
was getting light on by that stage, it was only a 40 as well. I think
as a serious backup medium floppies were shot after ~40Mb turns into a
lot of floppies really quickly after that.
SCSI DDS tape drives were the way to go - we used them at work and recycled tapes, so I could bring home old bulk-erased tapes. They'd
store 2gb and later 4GB, and with compression could go above that.
SCSI was a lot faster than the floppy interface. I always wondered why
ATA tape drives didn't become a thing - most ATA motherboards could support 4 devices and most people had 2 (primary hard drive and an
Pointers?Yep, it takes something unique to retain visits I guess :P.
You have gotten my attention, sir! :)
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