How The Backup Process Has Changed [LWN.net]

How The Backup Process Has Changed

Posted Dec 2, 2007 5:31 UTC (Sun) by paulmfoster (subscriber, #17313)
In reply to: How The Backup Process Has Changed by giraffedata
Parent article: How The Backup Process Has Changed

In my case, my "users" are myself and my wife (our company is just us). 
And I'm *not* very forgiving of us. All my data loss has been my own 
stupid goofs. I know right away, and go back to the backup. I'm more 
concerned with having multiple copies of the same backup, in case of disk 
failure or lightning strike.

But if I had a larger company or an employee who had the expertise to hack 
things, I'd take a view more like yours.

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How The Backup Process Has Changed

Posted Dec 2, 2007 23:04 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

About half the time when I destroy data with a stupid goof, the destruction has been backed up by the time I discover my error. Something works fine for years, then I get the bright idea to improve it. A week later, I find out the hard way that it wasn't an improvement. I back up every day.