in reply to The true benefit of open source

Well that's a benefit but hardly a motivation to do OS programming. Just take from this a lesson - test your backups by doing a test restore. You won't know that it will go swimmingly until you actually try it out.

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printf "You are here %08x\n", unpack "L!", unpack "P4", pack
  "L!", B::svref_2object(sub{})->OUTSIDE;

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Re: Re: The true benefit of open source
by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Oct 23, 2002 at 09:58 UTC
    You don't actually need to do a test restore if your backup software has a compare option. Invoke the compare once your backup has completed and flag any differences.

    This doubles the time of your backups, but buys you confidence that the backup is readable.

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