On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:47:53AM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > Quoting Austad, Jay (austad at marketwatch.com): > > Don't back up your mail spool. It changes so frequently that a backup of it > > will be useless anyway. > > That was my first thought, but see my previous message about loosing these > messages. I was hoping to be a super-admin :-) I agree with Bob. Even if it's not a full or current backup, when it comes to other people's data, I think you have to save as much of it as possible. Same rule applies: backup as often as you can afford to lose stuff. Trouble is, with users, you have to back up as often as *they* can afford to lose stuff. Of course if it's really that important, you'll probably be set up with RAID and other stuff, I'd hope. (P.S.: Bob - you're infected with the "virus-on-the-loose." Symptoms are that people who may correctly use the word 'lose' in print or handwritten communications spell it 'loose' in e-mail) ;) -- "Trying to do something with your life is like sitting down to eat a moose." --Douglas Wood