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526 points swills | 4 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source

1. imcritic ◴[23 Oct 25 22:27 UTC] No.45688173[source]▶

>>45687458 (OP) #

How does a disaster recovery plan with it look like?

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2. tadfisher ◴[23 Oct 25 22:29 UTC] No.45688189[source]▶

>>45688173 (TP) #

There is never a disaster; reading from /dev/null will return the same result before and after any external event.

3. wolrah ◴[23 Oct 25 23:04 UTC] No.45688571[source]▶

>>45688173 (TP) #

/dev/null is globally redundant across almost every *nix-ish system in operation. Just reinstall your software on whatever is convenient and all the same data will be there.

4. mpyne ◴[24 Oct 25 02:06 UTC] No.45689949[source]▶

>>45688173 (TP) #

    sudo mknod /dev/null c 1 3 && sudo chmod 666 /dev/null

might do it on many systems

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/dev/null is an ACID compliant database