Re: backups on the news partition

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From: Damon
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:27

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In article <1inq8eINN8p3@spock.dis.cccd.edu> markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) writes:
>Here we never back up the news article spool partition.  Keeps the backups
>small (a single unattended DAT) & faster.  If we ever lost the device, it would
>be no big deal to start over again with an empty spool.
>
>Of course, we DO back up the news programs and config files such as active,
>history, etc.

Here we only back up the news spool (in its own partition) with the
monthly level-0 dump.  Just on the principle that *everything* should
go in a level-0 dump methinks.

Damon
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From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
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Subject: Re: backups on the news partition
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Date: 10 Jan 93 21:27:47 GMT
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