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It seems to me that a customized operating system is data in need of |
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backing up. Indeed the _structure_ of one's filesystems is data you |
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need to back up. What if you lose some access control settings that |
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you made long ago and have forgotten? Put it all on tape. Make as |
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much of it recoverable as you can. Use a program like tar that is |
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widely available. |
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(I also like to use numeric owner and group IDs in my tars, so that |
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restoring doesn't depend on password and groups data. I learned this |
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from a bad experience.) |
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