[Python-Dev] Historical backups?

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:33:57 +0200


On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:16:48PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:27:48PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >I'm assuming that XS4ALL is doing proper backups of the directory
> >(~barry/archives on creosote), so I'm not too worried.

> Based on my work doing backup audits for our clients, I'd have to say that
> unless regular audits are done you probably shouldn't count on them.  ;-/
> You may want to run a test recovery before being too confident in it...

We do regular audits. The backups don't go back very far (a week at most)
but they do work.

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