On 14/01/2021 13:19, Chris Green wrote:
> 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 ??
>
Because /usr/local and /usr/lib is full of nice stuff like fonts and
screensave backgrounds and the like


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