[H-GEN] Linux backup tool of choice

[Russell Stuart]

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On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 04:18, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> It's also an acceptable level of risk for a pretty large number of
> people.  Making backups is all about the level of risk you're willing
> to be comfortable with.

The problem I have with a backup disks is that they are very effective
against hardware failures, but not so effective against software
failures and finger trouble.  A typical example is that you discover
your monthly debtor run has deleted all your debtor transactions, not
just the paid ones.  Or that your CVS server has written a huge chunk of
nulls into all the files modified by the last commit (this happened to
me).  Typically you don't notice until the next day, but by then it is
too late - your mirror drive has the same data on it as your master.  In
my experience this type of failures is far more common that a hardware
failure.

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