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