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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.



Never mount a backup writeable.


How do you make the backups then?


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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