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> Gandi, here, were doing backups and replications

As far as I understand correctly they only made snapshots on the same machine, which is why there's trouble to begin with.

Considering they're currently "reminding" customers that backups are an industry standard right after losing data due to missing backups I wouldn't just shrug it off.

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That's probably because they bought into the sales pitches of the likes of EMC. It's a nice pitch and in most of the cases it works exactly like EMC promises. Snapshots work great, data is always recovered, etc, etc, etc.

The fun, of course, starts that one time when it does not work and you realize that no one looked at the corner case that bit you.

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