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I initially thought that to do a restore, I'd have to run amrecover on daedalus, and then I'd have to stream the contents of multiple tapes back to it at the appalling uplink speed of my DSL connection, but fortunately amrecover has a sethost command, so I can restore just the files I need on another machine local to caesar at LAN speeds, and just transfer the files I restore to daedalus.

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(Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus

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Curative effects would have thrown the commission into an inextricable daedalus, because nature alone, without any treatment, cures many maladies. — Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
I jumped through all of the hoops to have caesar be the backup server, and daedalus be a client. — Diary of a geek
I think I then lost interest for a while, until I was going to upgrade daedalus to Etch, and I wanted to have a successful backup first. — Diary of a geek
My DSL link isn't the fastest, so a full backup of daedalus can take over 48 hours to complete, but I'm not paying for inbound bandwidth at home, so it's not a big deal. — Diary of a geek
I initially thought that to do a restore, I'd have to run amrecover on daedalus, and then I'd have to stream the contents of multiple tapes back to it at the appalling uplink speed of my DSL connection, but fortunately amrecover has a sethost command, so I can restore just the files I need on another machine local to caesar at LAN speeds, and just transfer the files I restore to daedalus. — Diary of a geek