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Number   :  3234
Date     :  2002-12-11
Author   :  freedom41ca
Subject  :  Re: Preserving Generation Backups
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--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, CBFalconer  wrote:
> "freedom41ca " wrote:

> Please correct your linelength. . .

Sorry, I haven't seen any problems with line formatting when I review my messages to date (as I used to have this problem using cut-and-paste in the past). 

I shall adjust.


> I think this whole discussion is mixing things up. Backups are
> backups, . . .

I'm an older systems guy, when daily generation backups used to be the everyday norm.
Now, most people don't even know what a generation backup is, not alone know how to use them. 

The bottom line is that generation back-ups allow you to: 

1. create a timestamped record of your changes/modifications
2. should a change ever not work out, you can quickly revert back to a previous change by going back one generation of your work, or two, or three until you get to a point before the problem was created.
3. who's to say that your one and only back-up was not corrupted during the backup process.

Are you saying that you would rely on only one backup burned to CD or disk drive?
I've found serveral bad files on my backup CD's over the past year, and I have a namebrand CD and use only top quality blank CD's. 
So you can't always depend on a single backup.

> Pruning the filesystem is an entirely different operation, and
> should insist on close supervision.. .

Xxcopy is a marvelous multipurpose tool (that is not limited to performing only backups), and which allows for file pruning with the /rmdir switch, so my question here is valid.

Martin
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.



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