Depends, what kind of backup? I have 2 identical drives, an rsync every night that keeps the drive in sync ... I do this instead of RAID 1 because I can grab old files if I delete them. In my situation, a drive dies... and, well, I just mount the second drive :)
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Emerson, Tom</b> <<a href="mailto:Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com">Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> -----Original Message-----<br>><br>> Since it's kind of variety night, we could play a round of<br>> "Stump the Chumps" (someone will recognize the reference).<br><br>Since I didn't directly recognize it, I did a search...
<br><br>Lots of variants, it seems...<br><br> -- first hit is an ongoing web-based game of "name that tune"<br> -- another was a blogger willing to take on "any" question (though it<br>takes a bit of effort to find his answers)
<br> -- another was a minister who got stumped by the following:<br> kids: how can more than one religion be right?<br> Minister: they can't all be right, suppose I point out Fred's shirt<br>is yellow, but you say it's blue -- either I'm right and you're wrong,
<br>you're right and I'm wrong, or somehow we're both wrong<br> kids: ahh, to you, his shirt may be what you believe to be yellow,<br>yet to us it is what we believe to be blue, thus we're both right<br><br>[heavily paraphrased...]
<br><br> -- a radio/web-podcast station (wtvn) who has a "chump" that "can turn<br>any PC into sludge, regardless of whether it runs windows or mac" [and<br>yes, I noticed Linux was not mentioned there... ;) ]
<br><br>> Whoever can post the most<br>> entertaining/thought-provoking/bizzare/lame problem ... I<br>> recommend making a complete backup first. :-)<br><br>Here's one -- how does one actually go about recovering from a backup?
<br><br>(this gets into a chicken-and-egg sort of problem; especially when the<br>backup was made with the prior release, or better still, a different<br>distro entirely)<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>
-- <br>Matthew Gallizzi