RE: SUG: Automatic RPM database verification and repair

["Stanley, Jon" <Jon Stanley savvis net>]

>/No one/ saves a copy of Packages, as such an implementation detail is
>RPM's responsibility, and it does not do it.  Don't blame the users for
>omissions!
>-- 

No one?  For a particularly large customer, one of my daily cron jobs is
to backup /var/lib/rpm (in it's entirety).  I've dealt with the
aftermath of far too many RPM database corruptions (namely about one in
1,000.  For this customer, it's worth the extra disk space).