[luau] Next up, back up

[Nakashima]

My main concern is users asking me to get back a file or files they 
deleted by mistake. For now, if I can take care of that, I'm good. I'll 
work on "off-site backup" down the line.

On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 07:33  PM, Vince Hoang wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:41:08PM -1000, Nakashima wrote:
>> As I read your comment it occurred to me that we don't have
>> to backup to another machine. We can just back up to another
>> directory. Our mirrored drives provide enough safety, right?
>
> Safety from what? Mirrored drives offer redundancy over another
> failed drive. It does not protect against user error or
> catastrophic system failure. Backups to another system in the
> same room does not protect against, say, building fires.
>
> It all depends what you want to be able to recover from.