Anyone whose ever had to rebuild a server just from tapes might agree

[Henry Spencer]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Teddy Mills wrote:
> 2. If the system crashes, restoring a system entirely from tape is equally
> as difficult. On servers with real data. I will never make that mistake
> agan. Anyone whose ever had to rebuild a server just from tapes might agree.

Or might not.  I had to do it a number of times, in the bad old days when
I was a sysadmin, and although there were sometimes problems, the rebuild-
from-tape part was never among them.  But then, we were seriously careful
about how we did backups.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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