Re: Re: My darn NAS...
  By: The Natural Philosopher to Chris Green on Thu Jan 14 2021 11:06 am

 > depends on what you want. I rsync huge amounts of data. Disk space is
 > cheap. Recovering from data loss is not, Working out what is important
 > and what is not is even more expensive.
 > 

I agree with this position.

I know that just backing up the data that is not easily reproductible suffices,
in theory. However, if you only back the data up without the applications and
the OS stack, your recovery consits on a sysadmin installing software for a
week and swearing at his notebook.


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