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Re:Undeleting a file overwritten with mv by fuzxi on Sunday November 29, 2020 @05:04AM (#25244141)
The file he overwrote was the backup, haha.

>Given that we already consider it to just be a backup, we currently don’t make any further backups of this data.

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Re:Undeleting a file overwritten with mv by wizzwizz4 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:24AM (#25244494)
Never mount a backup writeable.
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Re:Undeleting a file overwritten with mv by sgerenser on Sunday November 29, 2020 @08:43AM (#25245061)
How do you make the backups then?
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Re:Undeleting a file overwritten with mv by wizzwizz4 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:43AM (#25245343)
Well, you can make the backup, but then set the read-only flag on the tarball and never touch it again.
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