Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:18:19 -0500 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FS backup to Hard Disk Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20010918081819.06b79c98@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <200109181249.NAA23018@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: <Christoph Sold's message of Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:39:53 %2B0200>
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Richard: Thanks. I agree with that assessment and as I said in a previous reply, testing the restoration is important and I'm amazed how many do backups but never tried a restore until it was a real need.... Tapes are the tradition, but very sloooowwww and I like to have all kinds of backups available. All of the Win2K machines have backups running on a second hard disk and several restores have been made with 100% success.... I believed I knew the proper tar usage for this experiment, but I have seen some mighty good tips from this list full of very knowledgeable folks.... At 01:49 PM 9.18.2001 +0100, Richard Tobin wrote: >> OTOH, a backup within the very same box is no backup. > >More accurately, it's only 99% backup. In the last twenty years I >have had to do dozens of restorations (from single files to whole >systems) from backup, and every one of them would have worked >perfectly well if the backup had been "in the very same box". > >It's all a question of balancing risks and costs. How bad would it >be to lose all your data? How likely is it? > >-- Richard > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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