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There is another school of thought, which is that the time taken to |
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create and maintain this excellent, but overly elaborate, system for |
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the home user would be greater than the time taken to simply |
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re-install. I am not interested in a maintaining such a comprehensive |
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system at home - I am interested in using my computer to get things |
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done :) |
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Work, however, has different requirements (which I won't go into here) |
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but your method strikes me as being much more suited to that |
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environment. It provides much greater to scope to recover from |
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failures quickly and easily, and I can spend less time doing actual |
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work - a double win :>p |
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I fully agree that non-replaceable user data such as movies, music, |
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personal documents, photos, work etc should be backed up fully, both |
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to defend against hardware failure and stupid user syndrome. Backing |
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up of the entire system to this extent can be a waste of time for many |
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users. To clairfy, I am only talking about sensible requirments for a |
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HOME user. Personally, I have a shell script which uses rsync to |
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backup my home folder (and some other bits) to another box accross my |
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LAN. This has got me through one disk failure already :). It IS a |
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hassle to rebuild a system, but less so than to manage an overly |
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complex system. |
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Just my opinion as a humble Gentoo user. |
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Rob Lesslie |
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