question about backups

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:47:04 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:

> Personally, I use faubackup to store just my personal data, and don't 
> bother to backup the OS files since they're available on CD and/or the
> net anyway.

Just a note.  I recently had a disk crash and lost my data.  I had a 
week old backup of my personal data (it should have been more current), 
but just getting the system back to where it was usable for what I 
needed it for took a long time.  Most people install many packages that 
are not in the default system install.  

It is worth having a full backup around to avoid having to get 
everything up and working again.  

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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com> 
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