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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:47:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Doug Young <dougy@brizzie.org>
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Subject: Re: simple back up method
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RULE 1 of keeping alive in the computer industry:

NEVER TRUST A BACKUP METHOD TILL YOU HAVE TESTED THE RESTORE!

I learned that the hard way - its one of the reasons I dont have a lot of
hair left :)

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Doug Young wrote:

> > How do I restore the backup from dump?
> > 
> Some people ask the weirdest things :)
> 
> At a guess maybe the "restore" command might do it,
> but never having got that far I really can't say for certain
> what the correct syntax might be
> 
> 


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