The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> 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.
>
I make very sure that all the configuration is either in /home or
/etc, most programs do behave properly and keep their configurations
in the right place.


> In general a well crashed primary disk is an excuse to upgrade everything...
>
Yes, so why would one back up /usr ??

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Chris Green
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