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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:06:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Matteo Centonza <matteo@sif.it>
To: Federico Sevilla III <jijo@free.net.ph>
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Hi all,

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Federico Sevilla III wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2002 at 16:56, Ian Cumming wrote:
> > Note: Be sure to only restore the backup dumps up to the date you wish
> > to restore to!  For example, if you want to restore to Tuesday, only
> > restore 0, 1 and 2 - not anything else!
> 
> So I restore from 0, then from 1, then from 2? Simply restoring from 2
> wouldn't work?
> 
>  --> Jijo
> 

have you ever thought of using amanda for your backups?

Doing so, you'll get rid of all sorts of implementation details
plus a whole bunch of interesting extras (for short).

Just a thought.

Ciao,

-m