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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:49:21 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FS backup to Hard Disk
Message-ID:  <200109181249.NAA23018@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Christoph Sold's message of Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:39:53 %2B0200

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> OTOH, a backup within the very same box is no backup.

More accurately, it's only 99% backup.  In the last twenty years I
have had to do dozens of restorations (from single files to whole
systems) from backup, and every one of them would have worked
perfectly well if the backup had been "in the very same box".

It's all a question of balancing risks and costs.  How bad would it
be to lose all your data?  How likely is it?

-- Richard

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