[ale] [OT] Philosophy of Restoring from Backup

[Pete Hardie]

I have started to prune old cruft from my digital life - deleting old job
interview notes, projects that I have not touched in a decade, etc

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:26 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> For some reason the Thunderbird and Firefox folks thought trashing
> rollback capability was a good thing. Guess I need to find
> replacements, or stick with the really old stuff.
>
> Since I needed to change OS anyway, I pulled that root drive and
> popped in another one. Besides the loss of a few e-mails due to Tbird
> issues, my backups were current. On a new OS within a couple hours,
> ready to resume my old life.
>
> But do I really want to? I have my entire home directory backed up and
> can restore with a few commands. I've done it for years. But that
> means years of cruft hiding in dot files, a lot of disk space used,
> and a variety of other potential issues.
>
> Sometimes it is good to pause at the beginning of a project and decide
> if that is worth the portion of your life it will take, and choices it
> will decide for you.
>
> Leam
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Pete Hardie
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