backup

[Ed Greshko]

Nicholas Robinson wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2008 00:08:41 John Thompson wrote:
>> I use tape with hardware compression and error correction. Before that I
>> used afio, which compresses files individually as it places them in an
>> archive. That way corruption in one file does not affect the rest of the
>> archive.
> 
> When I first started working in the early 80s I worked with an operations 
> manager who had started when Turing was a boy and his view was it didn't 
> matter what you did with backups so long as you verified them. At last then 
> you would be certain that you had something to restore should the need arise.

Alan Turing?  The born in June 1912 and died in June 1954 Turing?  He 
started what when Turing was a boy?  Just wondering how old this operations 
manager was....

> Admittedly in those days, media was much more unreliable, which was his main 
> concern, but it still seems good advice as it would pick up corrupt files or 
> archives as well - and did for me last year when I had a bad DVD.
> 
> Nick
> 


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