Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 08:49:42 +0800 From: Shaun Dwyer <shaun@crystal.com.au> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security vulnerability in dump Message-ID: <3E1B75A6.7090800@crystal.com.au> In-Reply-To: <877kdgvjub.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> References: <200301071548.H07FM0J93369@asarian-host.net> <20030107183359.A51290@slave.east.ath.cx> <877kdgvjub.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
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Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> writes: > > >> Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), >>so maybe no need to backup it again. > > > Were you joking? Surely you're not implying that there's no need to copy > the data to tape (which is the most common use for dump) since it now exists > in two places on the same hard drive - are you? I do dumps to another HDD on another machine over NFS :) Must cheaper than an equivelant size and speed tape drive +Media. --Shaun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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