17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Excuse me? Yes, most systems back up everything. I run an ISP. We back up -everything- (well not netnews), nightly.
Often files retrieved include e-mail thought to have been erased long ago. It survives because the diligent computer system manager makes backup tapes of everything on the system every night, then stores those tapes for years.
Uh... they back up their *mail* spools? Yeah, right.
~james
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