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From: aaJoe on 22 Feb 2006 11:53 So we have basically 3 different reasons to backup: - To archive our work (incremental backup) - To restore our OS after a hardware failure (clone) - To restore our OS after a software failure (backdated clone so you don't copy the problem to your new installation and Preference settings for all programs saved - if you know where they are. Where ARE most of them?) Am I missing anything?
From: void * clvrmnky() on 22 Feb 2006 12:34 On 22/02/2006 11:53 AM, aaJoe wrote: > So we have basically 3 different reasons to backup: > - To archive our work (incremental backup) > - To restore our OS after a hardware failure (clone) > - To restore our OS after a software failure (backdated clone so you > don't copy the problem to your new installation and Preference settings > for all programs saved - if you know where they are. Where ARE most of > them?) > > Am I missing anything? - To feel smug when someone posts yet another "I lost everything how do I recover I didn't make a backup" message. Never underestimate the power of shaudenfreude. (To be perfectly honest, we only back up our home directories and precious media/work files around the /hacienda del mono/. Living dangerously is my middle name. Names. Both are my middle names.)
From: Randy Howard on 22 Feb 2006 12:50 aaJoe wrote (in article <noemail-9CA147.10532922022006(a)news.lga.highwinds-media.com>): > So we have basically 3 different reasons to backup: > - To archive our work (incremental backup) > - To restore our OS after a hardware failure (clone) > - To restore our OS after a software failure (backdated clone so you > don't copy the problem to your new installation and Preference settings > for all programs saved - if you know where they are. Where ARE most of > them?) > > Am I missing anything? -- If you lose thousands of digital photos of the wife's babies, your life will become a living hell. -- When it comes time to upgrade to a new piece of hardware (drive, or even an entire system) they come in handy. -- When some new bug/virus/trojan horse/malware/whatever comes along and wipes out your goodies -- peace of mind -- you decide to try out the console for the first time, su to root, and for some inexplicable reason type: # rm -rf / :-) -- Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
From: Richard E Maine on 22 Feb 2006 13:10 Randy Howard <randyhoward(a)FOOverizonBAR.net> wrote: > -- you decide to try out the console for the first time, su to > root, and for some inexplicable reason type: > # rm -rf / People joke about that, but I've actually seeen something darned close from a professional sysadmin who should have known better. (Ok, he wasn't a very good professional sysadmin in my opinion, but....). He wrote a script to be run by cron in order to auto-delete things in our anonymous ftp incomming directory based on some criterion that I forget the details of. Unfortunately, he got confused about the current directory or some such thing, so it started from / instead of from /wherever/ftp/incoming. A week or two later, he announced that he thought we might have caught a virus or something because the system was acting strangely, and files were "randomly" disappearing from strange places. :-( Did I mention that he wasn't a very good sysadmin? And debugging was a particular weakness of his. (That's bad in a sysadmin). He didn't correlate the random file disappearances with the fact that he had recently wrote a cron script that involved deleting files. I found the problem for him. Complete rebuild of a major server required. That was a PITA. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: my first.last at org.domain| experience comes from bad judgment. org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain
From: Richard E Maine on 22 Feb 2006 13:19
Richard E Maine (that's me) wrote: > ... he had recently wrote .... Argh. I know better than that. Really. I cringe when I read it. That was the result of a messed up partial edit of the sentence. I suppose I should just let it pass in silence, but I couldn't bear to leave it out there as is with my name on it. :-( I'll claim that it doesn't count as a grammar flame if I'm correcting myself. :-) -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: my first.last at org.domain| experience comes from bad judgment. org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain |