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Monday 25th April 2005

Backups

Back everything up to /dev/null. Takes seconds, and you can always get them back from /dev/random. Eventually.

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Stuart Langridge:

2005-04-25 14:20 65 mins after the Original Article

I’d be laughing if this wasn’t my official backup strategy…

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Rory Parle:

2005-04-25 18:06 5 hrs after the Original Article

So you don’t recommend putting all of your vital data, including how to get your wireless network card working under Linux, on a partition that you’re sure is on your second hard disk only to find—after formatting your first disk—that it wasn’t on that disk at all? I could have done with someone warning me about that this morning.

Comment edited by Aquarion 2005-04-25t19:25

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