"hard" is when you have to do the first test of the recovery system: make backup, pull the plug, restore from bare iron 5 years worth of critical data.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu">warlord@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">"Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> What is scary is there are still people today who don't see the need for<br>
> regular backups until something goes belly up on them.<br>
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</div>coming up with a backup system is *hard*<br>
implementing it is even harder.<br>
<br>
-derek<br>
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