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From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:  Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:05:39 -0700

>> Thanks for all the tips.  One thing I have stumbled on (I had forgotten
>all about it) is
>> setting the security on registry keys using REGEDT32.  Now, while getting
>the IMail
>> registry section hacked would be a major pain in the a**, we do frequent
>(four times
>> a day) backups of those keys, so even a hack would not be an absolute
>> catastrophe.
>
>You may back it up 4 times per day, but to what, the same file? What if it
>got hacked, then a minute later your backup ran and backed up the hacked
>registry which overwrote the previous backup. Now what?
>
>FWIW, my system state backups, while done everyday, have a different daily
>job so that I end up with 7 system state backups per week.

Well, the files are date stamped right in the file name, so there's no duplication.  
As well, we have tape backup and the system state is backed up there, so I've got two 
levels of backup.  I don't do this because of hackers, but because I've been bitten 
too many times by my own stupidity.


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A. Clausen
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