The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> 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
>
I do actually back up /usr/local, as far as I'm aware there's nothing
in my /usr/lib that isn't simply a package I can download from the
repositories.

I do keep a record of everything that I have installed in addition to
a standard basic install of xubuntu, as well as my record I use
synaptic which also keeps a history of what has been installed.

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Chris Green
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