[Gllug] the tao of backups...

Walid Shaari ws at melinux.com
Sat Sep 21 16:52:36 UTC 2002


On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 17:22, Adam Bower wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> > http://taobackup.com/
> 
> I know i will regret saying this but point no.1 saying backup everything is
> plain madness, all i backup is /home and /etc/ and my latest Debian kernel
> package and a list of the debian packages i have installed. To be honest I
> think that is also a little over the top. 
> 
> Thing is also with backups you have to be careful if you backup everything as
> of course if you are hacked and have to restore you may end up just
> reinstalling the trojans.

Thats why they mentioned this in the Integrity page, but I did not take
it seriously the moment I saw it was another well done creative
advertisement. 

Walid 



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