On 13/01/2021 17:36, Richard Falken wrote:
>    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.
>
>
Well I do reinstall all apps BUT remembering what the config files were
called, what changes were made  and where they were, is something I
prefer to leave for that recovery phase.

In general a well crashed primary disk is an excuse to upgrade everything...



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