Re: protect .idata from corruption

I was thinking more in line of a lock file which would make sure that the file 
wasn't over written with a 0-file.

-Ole Jacob

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 14:47, clemens fischer wrote:
> Ole Jacob Taraldset <[email protected]>:
> > I just experienced that all the data in my .idata was deleted. The
> > hd was 100% filled last night and that is probably the reason why it
> > happened. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this from
> > happening again (except for maing sure that the hd is filled up)?
>
> make a backup.  twice a week for non-sensitive data might be enough.
> to give an example:  tar'ing up all data in /etc/* and local/etc/* as
> well as my home-dir and certain other vital files makes a compressed,
> encrypted archive of 33MB, which can be stored abroad.  use good
> encryption, though, like PGP or the like, not crypt(1).
>
>   clemens

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