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From: Pat Enterkin <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] A Cautionary Tale - Backups
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 21:19:02 -0500
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Gale Gorman wrote:
>
> 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

Gale:
To avoid ruining good data with bad. In other words, to be able to back
track to check out files (on one disc or floppie). I don't know if I am
making sense, but it is my understanding that you would not want to
overwrite your files in case you have a corrupted file or some bad
mistake that would mess up a previously saved good file. I am not a
computer expert and don't really know which is best, but I have read and
heard that you don't over write if possible to avoid it. These would be
backups on the same disc or floppie.

If you erased the media, then I guess you could use it over and over as
long as it worked. As I said, I am not expert and don't know which is
the best.


Pat
> Houston
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Enterkin" <>
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> 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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