On Wed, 29 May 2013, Sean Dennis wrote to Gene Buckle:

 GB> This exact thing is why Tom Jennings lost a LOT of Fido source code.

 SD> You always backup your backups and test them too.

who keeps a spare machine around to test baremetal restorations? especially
after spending a few hours waiting on the back to run in the first place
and then to turn around and spend more hours waiting on the restoration?
i've never seen it done... not even in the corporate world... backups were
done, yes... tested? if you call verification during the backup process
"tested"...

 SD> I couldn't tell you how many hundreds of man-hours I've lost over 
 SD> the years because of not backing up or damaged backups!

you are not the only one... it is one of the reasons why i've resorted to
disk duplication of my BBS system but that has its own requirements...

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