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On 20/10/13 02:19, Daniel Robinson
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The most important thing is a regular backup of /home. I should add that I have just rebuilt a system - copying /home back from its store was a doddle however I've still got to re-install and reconfigure all the apps I had running - I've reinstalled 15G of repository packages and that can take time. When I say re-installed I upgraded at the same time but I I had just reinstalled the same version I would have had all the packages in a local apt-cacher-ng repository which would have speeded up the install and rebuild by several orders - we're talking days here. And I still have to re-configure a few things to get them working which can be a serious pain as it sometimes takes a while for the bug to appear that requires the re-configuration and there's so much noise on google these days... So this makes me wonder whether a regular full backup everything other than /home is not a bad idea. I've made a point of storing extremely low information rate data like videos and pictures and music off system as it needs handling separately. Tom te tom te tom |
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