| From: Richard Eibrand <richard at eibrand.net>
| Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 00:42:50 -0000
|[ ... ]
| I believe he does know what backups are, but in this case,
| this one missed the loop (as it happens at times). [ ... ]
agreed, that does happen.
which is one reason you have redundant/overlapping backups
(as with, e.g., some classic Tower of Hanoi strategies);
excepting brand new files, there is always a second backup
with a relatively recent version.
cheers!
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