Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 09:03 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Melchior FRANZ <melchior.franz@xxxxxxxxx> [11-19-11 08:15]:
> > On Saturday 19 November 2011 12:47:15 Alin Marin Elena wrote:
> > > so... you expected... something in /var/tmp to be safe?
> > > I think it is simple to see the fallacy...
> >
> > The key parts are "used to be safe" and "without warning". A responsible
> > distributor doesn't risk his users' data in this way.
>
> conversly, a "responsible user" doesn't store data "expecting it to be
> save" in a system temporary directory, keyword *temporary*:
And, "a responsible user" makes backup's & test if restore is
functioning satisfactory. period. 
Specially before doing anything drastic.

Even then shit happens: Made regularly backups on two different external
drives, and tested them, but in my darkest hour they both failed...

Who ever you blame, the distributor shouldn't be part of the equation.

hw
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