<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
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</div>I'm somewhat surprised that it isn't a more widely-broadcast best practice<br>
to ensure that the machine being backed up has no capability to modify the<br>
existing backup sets.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And that's why I still think tape (or other offline storage) is still a valuable part of any backup strategy. </div></div></div></div>