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From: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>
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To: imp@village.org, nate@mt.sri.com
Subject: Re: dump/restore with compression
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As matter of fact, just last night I made the mistake of installing
the BIN dist when I was adding X11 to the system.  As the system
was only a week old, I had not set up backups yet (after three
years of nightly tape backups under the previous OS) ...

... did you know that the BIN dist also (re)loads /etc for free?  

The system _will_ now backup via dump the root partition to a second
drive every night -- after I tweak it tonight, I'll have incrementals
for a week and weekly full backups going back a month.  (I had
week's worth setup before I went to bed last night.) I'll further
add tape or Zip-drive later.

Woe to the system that does not bow to an avatar of data recovery.

-ahd-