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Re: Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks



What in God's name are you doin with your headers?  Reply-to is all
fscked up.

on Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 10:57:29AM +1030, Mark Phillips (mark@ist.flinders.edu.au) wrote:

> So, I am still totally mystified about why it went so horribly wrong.
> It would seem the KBackup software is at least partly to blame, maybe
> entirely to blame?  It uses gzip in conjunction with afio, which I
> thought were fairly reliable.  Hardware could possibly be to blame,
> but I thought zip disks were fairly reliable these days??

I'd file this as a bug, and check the buglists to see if anything
similar has been reported.

This is a very strong argument for verifying your backups *before* you
need them.

I'll link again to my backups mini-FAQ/HOWTO:

   http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
   
...for why simple is better and tape is cheap.

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