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Cc: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566
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Greg Black wrote:
> Sorry, this person is *not* making backups in any meaningful fashion.
> Unless you verify regularly (preferably every time you make a backup)
> that you can restore both parts of the backup and the entire thing, you
> are not making backups.  You may be lucky, but you probably won't be
> lucky when it really matters.

s/making backups/employing an effective data recovery strategy/

Please don't feed the "proper use of language" trolls. :)

Meanwhile, we may want to consider that this whole thread is veering
off topic ...


Doug

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