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I love this site
cool site
Cool website!
This is great fun!
Loved it!
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MAKE,UNA KEEP OFF OOOOOO
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I love me some Tao of backup
hi, nice website on tao.
Good site. Lots of info
Nice and enlightning
nice site
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Very nice!
I DON LAND HERE.
I am but a small grasshopper, but Master, is it true that Mac computers are less vulnerable to viruses? I don't back up, except for my accounting files.
Thanks. I say with veracity that I feel enlightened.
Very Enlightening!
Thank you master
Too much time on your hands. Maybe you should get a life and get a job. Like your mum.
You have to much time on your hands. Your sad.
good information
good very good to send information please thanks
I LIKE IT A LOT ..
MASTER?!
YES MASTER!
Nice web page, with funny interpretation, best backup guide ever.
Hilarious. Loved it! You should think about writing a computer user's guide with this in mind. Many users out there do not even know what a mouse is!
Well done. Nothing really new to anyone who's been in the computing world for very long, but a fun read nonetheless. As advertising goes, I don't recall a product plug I've found this amusing.
8-)
Now *this* is some great advertising. Most other companies out there could learn a lot from you. Funny, nevertheless very good information and some advertising at the end. Thank you for making this site.
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This site is AWESOME! ahahaha! reading how to back up files in a philisophical way, like what happened if confuscious made it to the era of computers...
nice site, nice topic, nice theme!
Excellent!
your site made me conceptualize my computer as a being rather than an appliance. cousin lucky
Good site. It has many useful information.
Thanks :-)
Just what I was looking for...right on time.
Thank you you saved 5 years of work.
Just what I was looking for...right on time.
Thank you you saved 5 years of work.
Very nice site. I completely revised my backup strategy after I read this.
I have been enlightened
Reminds me of honey, in the TAO OF POE.
Good work!
Thanks for the great site d00ds! I'm using what I've learned here to create backup procedures for a tech college assignment.
Keep up the good work.
kool, in its own way..............thx 4 d tips on d backup deal
c001! how about a comic version of this? that would be nice...
this is a NERD site...completely irrelvant
pretty good i actually like this site.some of the other guys under my entry are classmates being stupid
i have wasted 1 hour reading this site and got nuthing from it
i think this site is a waste of time....it has nuthing to do with anything...
Very nice little site, a good read.
Thought this a gr8, original and amusing interlude in an otherwise somewhat stuffy and frustrating tech course!!hehe
Did anyone else get the mr MIAGI voice from karatae kid happening when the master was talking??
overall, i think this site just takes up disk space on a perfectly good server, it should irradicate itself from the internet.
tHIS sITE nEEDS sOME bETTER sTUFF bUT oVER aLL i gIVE iT 4.99999 oUT oF 10
this site is extremly confusing and told me nothing i didnt already know the master is a putz i am smarter than this decrepid old man and he smells like a corpse and that is not how you spell earl
Great
Great site very informative
Was pleased to see the teachings still out on the web since I first discovered them in 1999.
My new staff will be indoctrinated!
The Way has no front or back, no left or right: all things are mysteriously the same, with no right and no wrong - Wen-Tzu
funny and true, my backups are now secure, thank you Tao Of Backup!!!
funny and true, my backups are now secure, thank you Tao Of Backup!!!
Very Good tale1 I hope your software is right like the novel
Rolled on floor and almost choked with laughter! After working a 70 hour week following a backup and restore disaster, this is exactly what I needed!!!
It was very interesting thank you
It gives a lot of informaton thank you.
very informative, a great read.
Pioneers in a new informative marketing. I normally am not so patient while browsing... But this made me sit up and remember all those early days under dos and unix backup when we were never sure if the backup was really a backup.. Now my socks have been pulled up.. Thanks, I sincerely hope people change their marketing strategies. All the best...
Hilarious!!!!
Simply informative. Really needed this info to show my Boss.
(PS do you give classes on sales??).
I visited the site as part of an OTEN course i am undertaking. The site is both educational and interesting (a rare find).
What is the meaning of Tao?
We are a State government vocational education institution and we would like to place a link to your site on our learningware instruction page as we are teaching students about the importance of backup. Would you be happy for me to do that?
Louise Jones
Northern Sydney Institute
TAFE NSW
Why did you have to SPAM the Usenet UNIX admin group?
Backup is vital.
Make true your backup work well.
This avoid heartache.
i lUV tHe TAo StOrY
A cRacK uP!!!!
I enjoy your Web Site
JOHN
somebody send us up the bomb
Very useful
Terrific! Thanks for the insight.
JUST FOUND THIS SITE. IT SHOULD PROVE TO BE USEFUL. THANKS
Thanks for a great site!!!! It helped me a great deal!!!......
Thank You!!
One would think that having data meticulously distributed across 3 computers would give adequate protection.
Unfortunatley, such was not my happy experience, as 4 drives successively failed before all the data could be retrieved and redistributed.
Enlightening. Will surely mail the link to my complete address book.
Success.
Funny and instructive
Okay, that was cute. I normally don't like people trying to sell me things (it's kind of pointless anyway: college students never have any money), but I'm sending this link to a couple of people. I rarely do that, just as I rarely sign guestbooks. However, you have used creativity to present information on what is normally a very dry subject, even to computer geeks like myself. Now if only I could get my dad to back up his computer when I tell him to so that my job is easier when he screws something up!
Good site. I gather Free Veracity is not available to us win98 folks. Bummer.
I find your site useful to me being a rookie for a systems administrator position. I hope i can get more information on this site in the near future.
I must admit this is the first time I've ever been moved also to sign a guest book. A very innovative & interesting way of 'enlightening' someone.
Excellent site. However, I still have one question - If a backup runs by itself, in a forest, and nobody is there to restore, is the data still on the tape?
This is the first time I have ever felt moved to sign a guestbook - I thought the site made a dull subject very entertaining (as well as being informative). I look forward to implementing our own version of the Parrot/Frog system very soon!
You explained the topic so clearly that even my manager will understand it. Great site.
interesting?? but also looking for methods and how too!! back up
thank you very much
vern
if only enlightenment reached me 4 hours ago
I guess I always knew that I had a long way to go to enlightenment - now I am certain!!
And the king said:
I've read the "tao of backup" and i was really amused.
Clay is formed to make a pot
but it is where there is nothing that the usefullness of a pot lies
without the tao of backup
nothing is what you will have
Excellent koans! Nothing like looking for a backup you never made.
Hilarious!!! Loved the Parrot and Frog section; but informative also
That was enligtening and fun and serious!
Ross, thank you for this. It was sufficiently delightful that I didn't even mind that it was a shill. ;-) Not to mention sadly but profoundly true.
A Very Concise set of lessons masters. When I can joyfully erase my hard drives I know I will have learned.
Una pgina muy completa y de gran utilidad. Saludos... y gracias
Well done!
Backup? Isn't that something your manager gets when you try to discuss recovery, and costs.
Excellent piece. I might even look at Veracity.
Very helpful.
Thank you for this site which I visit for enlightenment every month or two!!!
Enlightening and entertaining!
Backup is never a 'hot', 'sexy', or 'attractive' topic, but your
site makes it approachable for those who dislike maintenance. I'm
still not sure if it isn't preaching to the choir that makes some
of us 'laugh with tears' at the stories, but it sure did rekindle
that little Jimminy Cricket voice when I read about off-site
distribution...because I realized I had moved from the choir to the pew and
haven't been religious in packing 'em up and moving 'em out.
Well done, well done.
Oh Wise One, this has been truely enlightening.
I have just been ask to assist in a backup review
and now I have a better understanding of what is
needed. My humble thanks for a truely entertaining
and informative site. Even the plug at the end
was witty.
So, now we now.
The truth is out there and I found it on this site. I have mailed the link to all the backup no-no's that I know.
Personally, I enjoyed reading every single letter of it. Thanks for creating this site.
Eric.
I am researching backup strategies and I
found your site to be most informative and
enlightening. Hopefully by company will
find the importance of backup strategy very
enlightening, when I propose my research
findings.
Thanks
Love the information. I was doing research and go lots of useful info.
Excellent pages; clear and informative,
funny and readable. Going to tell all my friends
and possibly buy a tape drive (one day :-/ !)
Thank you oh wise and awesome perveyor or wisdom to humble novices. Now I shall go forth and practice the lesson well learnt.
Anthony Foxcroft
Auckland 25.1.99
Great site. Although we have a department that looks after this, it is always nice to see that people without this luxury have well thought out and easy to read websites to help them along the way with backups... (Touch wood, never had to restore yet!)
And never shall you forget to have a copy of your
harddisk tools and backup software on a bootable
floppy that you check every day, for else you will
find that the only disk that you can still boot
from contains a very old version of a diskmonitor
and it shall take you a night and a day to recreate
your disk structure so you can get a working copy
of your backup software :-)
One who lost the source of his early Amiga years.
Great Info. Will pass on URL to colleagues.
Great!
Very interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed it. We are doing most of what the master suggests. Probably should include the items we aren't.
But the second version of anything is always better, no? In my experience, enlightenment will come to many only after the first total loss.
The only person I ever felt sorry for was a Doctorial candidate whose house burned down shortly before her thesis was due. That mound of melted plastic that had been her backup floppies sitting beside her charred computer didn't leave much to restore. If I had been able to refer her to your site maybe she would not have forgotten step 3, Separation.
That's the way how to make my mondey morning nicer`
than others. Keep going on this way.
The smartest, funniest sales pitch I've come across in a very long time. Godamn, I want your product!
Excellent Site. I have preached the message of some
of the seven heads to my consulting clients; but my
home site doesn't pass the audit. I will be pointing
others to the TAO and perhaps my journey will end
in Enlightenment also.
good site. I liked the Tao of backup story.
Data is like every thing you ever wanted,
you don't know what you had until you lost it.
I was truly enlightened. Thanks.
Ouch!!!
Great job!! This was a _hoot_, and unfortunately, quite too accurate a picture of 'real life in Corporate America'. Thanks for the great story! :)
Enjoyed the site - even managed to pass the audit...
I had to learn the hard way 25 years ago, hardware
fault in a tapedrive, the read after write test
was fixed as OK!
Last major problem was over 5 years ago, tapedrive
head alignment drift. I'd warned about the repair
history 9 months before the crash. But management
refused to act...
Colleagues perceive my backup strategies as near
paranoid - until they loose their data, then
they agree!
As I learned from flying - don't make the same
mistake once, it could be your last.
Nice example how these nasty and boring backup
advices can be made really interesting!
Well done! ;-)
Interesting reading! Very enjoyable.
I sent mail to Ross telling him that the Tao of Backup was "so good, it scares me". He thwacked me over the back of the head with the URL of this guestbook. I was thus Enlightened.
I just love the design of the Tao. The words make good sense too. I have made it required reading for my Systems Analysis class.
Very nice piece of work. I even think I passed
the Audit!
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