[Gnu-arch-users] Re: may I pick your brains?

[Dustin Sallings]

On Feb 22, 2004, at 21:35, Miles Bader wrote:

> -- there are some archives which I maintain like five copies of, not
> because doing so is strictly necessary, but because it makes me feel
> secure and is occasionally convenient ... and it's sooo easy.

	I was trying to limit my points, but this is very true.  My main 
archive gets replicated to three or four locations nightly, and about 
four others manually.

	In my CVS days, I had alarms that would go off periodically to remind 
me to make some manual backups of the system.  I had a nightly cron job 
that would rsync my repository to one system and tar it up, but this 
was the equivalent of offline backups.  It was there in case something 
went terribly wrong.

	I tend to mirror everywhere, and since there's no real distinction 
between a mirror and a backup, I backup everywhere.

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