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Re: robustness of CD's ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Fri Oct 25 16:14:24 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:56:42 -0700
From: BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
.....
> This brings me to my question. I have been presuming that I if things
> go wrong in my upgrading to 4.0, I can always go back to 3.0.3. I have
> not been backing up my standard system files, presuming that I have them
> on the CDROM. Have people seen CDROM's get corrupted? I haven't yet.
Regretfully, I customized more than half of global
system files somewhat heavily and if I re-install
from a CD, I'd have to spend at least a week trying
to set everything up the way it was...
> In the old days of tapes, one always backed everything up over and over
> again on different tapes just in case. What is the current thinking
> about this?
>
> Any comments?
I just make a backup of /etc, /boot, /root, /home and
/usr/local/bin; the rest is easily re-installed thanks
to RPM, then I just copy my config files over and reboot.
I have no way of backing up 1.4GB of Linux stuff, I don't
use most of it anyway, :)
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