-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 bruce wrote: > and given that usb/laptop drives are cheap... i can always keep one by my > side, and rotate it with the working drive in the box... > > should work ok... unless you; > bruce wrote: > Well, yes, but one of the reasons you make backups is to cover the case > where you meant to type 'rm -rf something*' when you are in the root > directory and accidentally type 'rm -rf something *' instead. Or a > software bug that does something like that. which would take out usb drive > Yes - but it would be even better if you rotated 2 such disks - or ran > over the network to another box. which will cover you up to time that drive was rotated out. - -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJGMjM+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAo//AJ9GwQNWA9mNLFq1GD4+QmSdIltW6ACfci+d VpYrqX2MOi0NWrpJRp7AJBU= =0V3y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines