[svlug] Reminder: SVLUG mailing list server failure risk, gap in backups

[Scott DuBois]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:40:28AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Mark - Syminet wrote:
> 
> > ...but how are you going to run run dd and/or rsync on /dev
> > (and:or /proc for that matter), unless root.
> 
> Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not seeing the relevance of
> /dev and /proc contents to SVLUG's backup needs on lists.svlug.org.
> 
> Actually, I'm not seeing their relevance to any backup needs on any host,
> but that's beside the immediate point.

Probably just a misunderstanding. From some of the readings I've done
online of the methods people use to do backups, nothing anyone does
really surprises me. Some people go so far as to simply clone
_everything_ from one drive to another. How the restore from that? Who
the hell knows. The world is full of madness.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm
not sure about the universe.” -- Albert Einstein