Hi Folks, Sam,
On Sun, 12 May 2002 19:40:55 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2002 14:42:35 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> Do what you have to, but I am very happy to wait those fractions of a
>> second that disk writes take, knowing that I have reduced the risk of
>> losing data again.
> I don't have anything on the Arachne machine that I couldn't live
> without, so it's not a problem. If I had stuff I really didn't want
> to lose I would get religion about backups.
Fair comment. :)
But even with a weekly back-up, there is a lot of time and effort
gone into a week's worth of stuff to be lost. Better not to lose it in
the first place, and treat backup as a backup (so to speak). :)
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
http://tadpole.aus.as
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