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From: clif@chinet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
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Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 11:18:56 EST
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I dunno if this is quite a human interface tale of woe, but...
  I recently lost my hd0 to a power supply problem.  
  No problem, says I, once I fixed the power supply, I have a dump level
0 backup from one month back, and a crontab entry that does a dump level
2 of hd0 to a file hd1 each morning at 06:00.
  After restoring things from floppy, it was somewhat after midnight, and
I decided to complete the task the following day.
  At 06:00, right on schedule, the machine did a level 2dump, over the
file of good data on hd1.  Pow, in one swell foop my clever method of 
making sure I couldn't lose any data had lost me a months worth.

  Moral:  I dunno.  Maybe don't leave the machine running unattended
until you've completely fixed things up.  

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Clif Flynt	ihnp4!chinet!clif
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