On 03/03/2010 06:50 PM, Hristo Petkov wrote: > Hi Guys, > > What are you going to backup. In an ideal world you would backup *everything*. > The OS is 'backed-up' on the live CD, the applications are 'backed-up' That's the base OS, without any applications and without updates. Going up-to-date will take a lot longer than restoring a backup. > all over the web, the repository lists can be found in Google, and the Hunting for apps and installing them online means you can't use your computer for your needs. > user files can simply be copied onto a flash memory - 64 GB for example. Are you joking? When did you copy last time your /home on a flash memory? How long did it take? > What is more with every new installation of the OS you are becomming > better and better - this is a unique chance to improve your skills and > to update or upgrade the OS. I take you never lost you /home so far... > What are you going to backup. Usually every user has to decide for a backup strategy examining various trade-offs: size, space, time, importance of data. For a simple user (the target of the Desktop spin) I expect to be about documents, data and settings. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
