[rdiff-backup-users] external hard disk backups - best practice

[Warren Guy]

mortee wrote:
> Thanks. However, the real problem here is that the backup disk is a 
> NetBSD FFS2, which unfortunately does a much more thorough job when 
> deleting files/directories. Namely, it literally erases all metadata 
> regarding the stuff, so, although the file data blocks are still 
> physically on the disk, I can't even determine which ones used to belong 
> to one file, not to mention file names and directory structure. It would 

While this won't help you get your data back, perhaps a point that can 
be made from your unfortunate story is the importance of maintaining 
more than one set of backups. A second backup set would potentially 
allow recovery of data in this and other circumstances where recovery 
from another backup disk fails for whatever reason.

Perhaps others can add other "best practice" tips they have, for the 
benefit of current and future readers of the list?

Warren

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