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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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Oh and RULE 2:

When you need to do a restore it will be something really critical, and
at a bad hour in the middle of the night. You wont be too with it, full of
adrenaline and not necesarily able to MAN anything anyplace - so you
should KNOW a restore command solidly so you can push thru the adrenaline
spike, the hangover, the lack of sleep, whatever,  and survive!  If you
dont - you will probably puke before its over.

RULE 3:

If you know how to do a restore backwards and forwards and are very
comfortable with the whole thing - and you are religious about doing
backups and checkin them - and have practiced restoring things and KNOW
it works - you almost never have to actually DO a restore and when you do
it is usually at a convenient time, for a file for a user that just nags
alot that isnt really all that important anyway.


On Sat, 19 May 2001, Doug Young wrote:

> 
> > I thought dump was all or nothing - whereas I often need just some
> files
> > and the flexability of having them restore to a different place, or
> to
> > have everything BUT whats already there restore.
> >
> 
> yeah I got that impression too ..... however my immediate interest is
> to
> save the whole filesystem of  remote mission-critical servers to
> another
> machine local to them so its a relatively simple task to rebuild them
> quickly in case of disaster
> 
> 


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