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Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved



On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, John Chambers wrote:

> Then there's the comment by Linus Torvalds, to the  effect  that  you
> shouldn't do backup at all. You should put your stuff online and make
> it sufficiently valuable that other people back it up  on  their  own
> disks.

I've always loved this comment.  He apparently made it after accidentally 
trying to have his communications program dial out over his hard drive. 
Wrote the modem initialization string over the MBR and partition table.

Shows that even smart people do dumb things.




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