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

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Mon Aug 6 03:12:51 UTC 2018


On Sunday 05 August 2018 14:13:15 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.
>
> The entire Linux kernel is kept as a single Git repository.  The
> source for the kernel consists of 61,000 files with over 800MB of
> content. And there are companies that keep *far* larger repositories
> than that (so I've heard).
>
>
> More generally, the best answer for avoiding swearing due to data loss
> is reliable, consistent backups.  It doesn't matter what backup method
> you choose: a remote Git repository is a great option, and has many
> advantages, if you can become diligent about committing and pushing
> changes in your workflow.  If not, find a backup solution that works
> automatically.
>
> Of course you should avoid tools that you've found to be unreliable,
> but even if you do that you're still subject to disk failures,
> lightning strikes, fat-fingers/PEBKAC, etc.  There's no substitute for
> backups.

I've been using amanda since about 20 years now. And its doing 5 of my 
machines everynight. Recovery can be a bit clumsy, but that can be 
worked around.

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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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