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Article #11517Re: accidental rm
From: Michael C. Nolan
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 08:52
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 08:52
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>"restore"---provided that you run "dump" on a regular basis. No >joke. Backups are more than just protection against disk catastrophe, >they're good for when the department chairman accidentally removes the >only copy of the proposal that was due in yesterday. ... --wnl This of course assumes you can convince the system manager that it's its job to do backups. I'm in a very data-intensive (images) environment, where about 1/3 of the data can change every day, and there are good reasons why nobody wants the job of backing it all up, least of all the system manager who is also doing development. With workstations this may be especially difficult, as the "system" can be distributed over a wide area. No answers here, it's a problem. nolan@hiips.lpl.arizona.edu; ...!noao!solpl!hiips [[ Said in jest: "that's what undergraduates are for!" --wnl ]]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: nolan@cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael C. Nolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: accidental rm Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <8903090526.AA24402@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 14 Mar 89 08:52:58 GMT References: <8902241934.AA18715@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 00:26:03 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 197, message 3 of 12