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Who needs attackers when you have system administrators? Learn why copying your data doesn't mean you've backed it up.
As I write this column, I cannot help but reflect on the irony of just having wiped out a month’s worth of data. In the spirit of this article, I was fiddling around with backups on my web server, and I managed to accidentally delete most of /var/ and all of the /home/ directory. This wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t kept the daily backups in /home/backups/. Oops.
Stop by Rikki's Open Source Exchange for dispatches from the world of women in open source.
Rikki Kite examines the experience of women across the spectrum of open source – the people, projects, organizations, events, articles, issues, and news.
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