<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, for the ideas. I'm still considering options.</div><div><br></div><div>I back up the OS because of the large number of additional packages I've installed. I don't always remember which ones, but it could be awkward to discover one wasn't restored....</div><div><br></div><div>I do fresh installs instead of dist-upgrades, though, so it doesn't stay too stale...</div><div><br></div><div>++ kevin</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 4:19 AM Ian Bruntlett <<a href="mailto:ian.bruntlett@gmail.com">ian.bruntlett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 14:32, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 at 22:17, Kevin O'Gorman <<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com" target="_blank">kogorman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Anyone have a clue?<br></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I have a shell script that I use to back up my personal data with tar. As for the O.S., I would reinstall it rather than restore it from backup.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">HTH,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ian<br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-6377534358001930662gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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