On 12/30/2014 04:53 PM, Peter King wrote:
Moral of the Story (one moral among many): Keep static time-stamped
backups as well as current redundant copies. Will implement a scheme
to do so this week, a better New Year's resolution than most!
This is way more common than people expect.
The ZFS folks found out that they needed to checksum disk files,
somewhat to their surprise. ICL used to do it on a sector-by-sector
basis as part of the sector footer, and would noisily recover when they
detected problems. Sun 3.5 did too, but you had to do the recovery by
booting (!) /stand/diag
--dave
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