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From: rb@ist.UUCP (Bob Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Backups - what if...
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 11:27:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 11:27:28 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 22:17:07 EST
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London
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...this was an ideal world, and you could have an ideal set of
tools to do all the file system backups on your various Unix
(and Unix-like) systems.  What facilities would this ideal
toolset provide?  What ``features'' of the various existing
tools cause the most pain?  Why?

[Note that I'm distinguishing here between *backups* taken as
insurance against hardware failure or carelessness, and
*archives* taken deliberately for long-term preservation of
key data. The requirements are somewhat different.]

	Bob