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Alan has 20 years of IT experience, mostly in the Government and Financial sectors. He started as a Value Added Reseller before moving into Systems Engineering. Alan's background is in high-availability clustered apps. He wrote the 'Users and Groups' and 'Apache and the Web Stack' chapters in the Oracle Press/McGraw Hill 'Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration' book. He earned his Master of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University. Alan is a long-time proponent of Open Source Software.
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Great article! Today I was setting up a new backup device and working on some scripts. All was going well until I accidentally deleted all the backups I'd just made.... so, I had to do them all again!
Seems to be a hot topic! It's obvious that there are a lot of different options and preferences for how people like their backups.