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Article #4384Re: BAD and A3000
From: Larry Phillips
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 1990 01:47
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 1990 01:47
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In <1594@nyx.UUCP>, bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes: > ... even more recently (this week) the BBS underwent a catastrophic >failure (the HD was ACCIDENTALLY (? we still don't know how) formatted by >another person in the house, just as the backup tape was being blanked for a >new automatic backup... _THE_ backup tape? Sheesh! I can just hear the reasoning... "Well, I have this backup in my hand. What should I do with it? I know, I'll clobber it, then hope that nothing goes wrong before I get another backup put nto it." Lesson #1 about backups is that the backup that is being written over is useless. Worth nothing. Zilch. Use at least two generations, three or more is preferable. Rotate them. This way, you have one that you will be writing over (the oldest, and about to be rendered a non-backup), and two more, in case one has a problem. -larry -- The raytracer of justice recurses slowly, but it renders exceedingly fine. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: BAD and A3000 Message-ID: <1780@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 15 Jul 90 01:47:34 GMT Lines: 27 Return-Path: <lpami!lphillips> To: van-bc!rnews