[ale] [OT] Philosophy of Restoring from Backup

[DJ-Pfulio]

Every Jan 1, I archive or delete stuff no longer needed. Ok, perhaps Jan 5th.
https://blog.jdpfu.com/2013/01/01/annual-digital-cleanup


On 8/26/20 8:29 AM, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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