[Babase] Re: Babase tables in user folders

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Sun Oct 12 21:42:58 EDT 2008



Quoting "Karl O. Pinc" <kop at meme.com>:

>
> On 10/11/2008 01:47:40 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>> Hi all (especially Karl),
>>
>> Sorry to be a bother, but I just wanted to check for quick
>> confirmation that user folders on Babase are protected (specifically,
>> the contents are permanently protected against deletion and are
>> backed up as often as the entire Babase database is backed up).
>
> Each user's schema in each database is backed up with the
> rest of the database.  So, yes, all the user data
> is as safe as the rest of the data.  The backups
> make no distinction between the different databases.
>
> Each user is the only one with permission to delete
> things in their schema, but otherwise there is no
> special protection against deletion.
>
> Hunter told me years ago that we had 72 days of
> daily backups.  We might want to query Hunter's replacement
> to see if anything has since changed.
Hunter's replacement has not been selected yet, so it is unclear what is
happening with the server right now, and the computer team sent an e-mail
stating that until someone is hired, all unix-like projects are on hold. I
don't know what this means for daily maintenance tasks, etc.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
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