Entry 60 error, software updater failed; can't find file /etc/apt/sources.list

[Peter Flynn]

On 05/08/18 19:13, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 13:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I have never considered such a thing. If my nc_files directory was a 
>> manageable size, maybe, but several hundred 50 to 200000 LOC files
>> would not be entirely practical,
> 
> Honestly, that will be no problem for Git.

Nor for pretty much any versioning repository (I use Subversion, but Git
is nice too). 200k × 80-char LOC is 15MB. Times 500 is 7.5GB. My svn dev
repos come to about 30GB sitting on a server elsewhere in on the
premises, accessible from outside, so I can access them on several
machines. The files also replicated independently with rsync to a remote
dump, where they eventually get periodically written off to tape. I'm
working solo, so features for sharing are not relevant; what is
essential is that I can commit even if my connection to the outside is
temporarily down.

> [...] you're still subject to disk failures, lightning strikes,
> fat-fingers/PEBKAC, etc. There's no substitute for backups.

As I get older the fat-fingering increases, so does my own memory of
what I have stored where. I *have* lost files over the decades, but
through my own carelessness and through a power brown-out which fried a
machine before it got that day's backup, not through any fault of the
software, and in all but a few cases there were copies elsewhere.

///Peter