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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 08:49:42 +0800
From: Shaun Dwyer <shaun@crystal.com.au>
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To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
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Subject: Re: security vulnerability in dump
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> writes:
> 
> 
>> Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups),
>>so maybe no need to backup it again.
> 
> 
> Were you joking?  Surely you're not implying that there's no need to copy
> the data to tape (which is the most common use for dump) since it now exists
> in two places on the same hard drive - are you?

I do dumps to another HDD on another machine over NFS :)

Must cheaper than an equivelant size and speed tape drive +Media.

--Shaun


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