Re: backups on the news partition

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:59

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In article <C0KKpo.63w@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>I'm wondering how other news admins do backups on the news partitions?

We don't.  The turnover is so high that it makes backups huge, and we
can't see any good reason to back it up.  If we lose that filesystem,
we'd just mkfs it and start from scratch.

We do backup /usr/lib/news, although our history files are located
elsewhere (in the news filesystem) so they don't get backed up.  The
control files, like active and sys, are the things you really don't
want to lose.  They're small and don't cost much to back up.
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"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: backups on the news partition
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