On Friday 06 December 2002 14:50, Niall O Broin wrote:
>On Friday 06 December 2002 16:03, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Hopefully, all I have to do now to recover is to dd to /dev/null
>> about 38 times and read the last two files before EOT, then
>> install that data, rewind and amrecover.
>
>You'll be saved that hassle by simply saving the config and index
> files onto a different disk/computer/physical location, depending
> on how paranoid you want to be. How hard would that be ?
>
I'm doing that too.  But I should move that script to after the 
backup is done, as the current way means they are a day older than 
the tape.  Thanks for pointing that detail out Niall.  Doing it 
your way means they'll only be a day out of date if I have to pull 
them from the tape.

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Cheers, Gene
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