On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:59:11AM -0500, James Thompson wrote:
> I am at least not old and still insist on off-site and off-line
> backups. This is simple stupidity...
It is dumb, plain and simple - age has nothing to do with it other than
as a supposed measure of wisdom.
Brett
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 15, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >crotchety old geezers insist upon off-site, *off-line* backups.
> >rsync to a neighboring machine just does not cut it...
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049780.stm
> > "Some have asked whether or not we had back-ups. Yes, we
> > dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately,
> > we backed up the servers between our two servers.
> >
> > "The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to
> > use one or the other back-up to remedy the situation."
> >
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