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gwern comments on Recovery Manual for Civilization - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: RyanCarey 31 October 2014 09:36AM

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Comment author: gwern 31 October 2014 05:43:35PM 4 points [-]

Meaningful backup systems always involve multiple copies. What are the first laws of backups? 'you will lose data', and 'you always have one less copy than you think'. Or as the archivists says, 'lots of copies keeps stuff safe'.

Comment author: Lumifer 31 October 2014 06:48:58PM 2 points [-]

Well, yes, Linus Torvald's backup system turned out to work rather well for him :-)