Re: Best backup system/plan for maximum safety - what do y'all do?

[Bret Hughes]

Bill Anderson wrote:

> Bill Carlson wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > For everyone who has suggested RAID:
> > >
> > > I like RAID, it's very cool. However, the kind of things are servers currently 
>do are not "worthy" of the price. What's valuable here, is not what it does, but the 
>long hours we've spent setting up.
> > >
> > > Also, while RAID and mirroring are great for hard drive failer, it does helps 
>not a whit if you're cracked.
> >
> > Or when someone types rm /etc/* and says "Oops."
> >
>
> Or my favorite:
> rm -rf .*
> thinking it will remove the current directory OR all the dotfiles in the
> current directory ... and are root.
>
>:)

I assume this will delete everything from the parent directory down?  at least ls .* 
appears to return the .. dir as well.  hmm pretty scary.

Bret



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