From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Data recovery recomendations needed
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:45:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150421184536.GA21731@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5536947F.4090006@holgerdanske.com>
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 20:18:39 CEST, David Christensen wrote:
> On 04/20/2015 09:38 PM, David Backer wrote:
> >[backups are] 3 months old ...
>
> So, all of your data on one HDD, a backup strategy of one HDD, and
> no backups taken for the past three months? Ouch. The guy in the
> mirror got you good (been there, done that).
Indeed. The usual agreement among sysadmins is that you
need 3 independent backups. You absolutely need 2, as
during an update you may destroy one and only find out
your primary data is bad at the same time. The 3rd one
is to have one more than the absolute minimum.
Arno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-21 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-21 4:38 [dm-crypt] Data recovery recomendations needed David Backer
2015-04-21 5:16 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2015-04-21 9:34 ` Sven Eschenberg
2015-04-21 18:49 ` Arno Wagner
2015-04-21 20:29 ` Sven Eschenberg
2015-04-21 18:18 ` David Christensen
2015-04-21 18:45 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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2015-04-21 4:40 David Backer
2015-04-21 3:18 David Backer
2015-04-21 3:45 ` David Christensen
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