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		fuzxi on Nov 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Undeleting a file overwritten with mv The file he overwrote was the backup, haha. >Given that we already consider it to just be a backup, we currently don’t make any further backups of this data.

wizzwizz4 on Nov 29, 2020 [–]

Never mount a backup writeable.

sgerenser on Nov 29, 2020 | [–]

How do you make the backups then?

wizzwizz4 on Nov 29, 2020 | | [–]

Well, you can make the backup, but then set the read-only flag on the tarball and never touch it again.

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