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[Stephen Hemminger]

Some basic rules of any backup software:
1. Restore is more important than backup. If the backed up data
  is garbage you are really in trouble.
2. Because of #1 it is okay for backup software to fail in a noisy
   manner. ie. your backup failed because your cd was bad, disk
   full, ... but it should never fail silently.
3. Redundancy and checksums are key to making sure the backup
   is good.  Checking should be done during backup, and can be
   overriden during restore.