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From: "Gale Gorman" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] A Cautionary Tale - Backups
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:00:22 -0600
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Pat,

I am moving from years on a UNIX system where complete backups are normal
and standard. We always rotated a series of tapes with one offsite at all
times. These tapes get reused as long as no error messages are reported by
the 'verify pass' and I have used some over and over for years.

The point is they are ALWAYS overwritten with the latest stuff. Why would
you want to append them?

Gale Gorman
Houston
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Enterkin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: [TMG] A Cautionary Tale - Backups


>
> > >The only safe solution is to maintain a series of dated backups and,
with
> > >CDs now so cheap, I have no excuse not to do this.
>
> I use CD backups but have been unable to determine how to backup a file
> without over-writing one that is already on CD. Would like to just
> append a file and have a series of backups on one CD, but so far have
> not been able to do this. Can you advise if this is possible and if so,
> what steps to go thru?
>
> Thanks,
> pat
>
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