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Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux?

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From: Doug Merritt
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <48ruta$73c@information-retrieval.village.org> drew@chopper.poohsticks.org (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
>In article <deejayDIBrEp.D8q@netcom.com>Jack Wilson <deejay@netcom.com> wrote:
>>If you want *real* protection, put all your critical data on [...]
>
>If you want *real* protection, mount things read-only where 
>possible, use a backup system, store backups off site, use a 
>UPS, and mirror your disks.

It's been occasionally pointed out for decades that the *best*
form of backup is to release the critical data as freeware to the
net, so that people back it up for you on tens of thousands of
different disk drives. :-)

Drew of course has in fact taken that approach with his scsi driver...
	Doug
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From: doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
Subject: Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux?
Date: 1995/11/29
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