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> Whither backups? A journaled filesystem will NOT protect against: 1)
> failed hard drive; 2) hacker damage; 3) virus/worm damage; 4) accidental
That's all true.
However, those backups are no substitute for a fixup program that works well
and does NOT require a lot of technical knowledge to use.
I've just been through the backup/restore caper for my primary disk. It's no
joke, and most people here would not be able to do it at all.
I filled my Travan 4 (4/8 Gbyte tape) - that alone took two hours on the good
run. I then exchanged the failed HDD, installed its replacement and restored.
Because of tar's communication impediment, I then found it necessary to run a
'tar -d' to find what it complained about.
Including travel to exchange disks, it took a good day's work, and that
excludes much of the preparation (eliminating stuff that would not fit on the
tape, preparing a recovery disk that would drive my tape drive and do
everything else I thought I might need).
Most home users, judging from the systems I see on sale in shops, cannot
backup their systems; I couldn't have made a simple backup either, if the disk
had been anywhere near capacity.
On this computer I had a luxury - a MO drive where I could prepare a fairly
complete Linux system.
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