LeRoy D. Cressy on Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:37:53 -0400 (EDT) |
I am in complete agreement with you about backups and the such, but how many new windows refugees out there know about backing up the /etc directory and portions of /var? A huge number of windows users that are not in the corporate world don't know about backing up a system or even where their own local files are on the hd let alone system configuration files. Some of my family who have now started using Linux find it a real joy that their local files are in the /home directory and that whatever program that they use will always put their documents in the home directory by default. An example when my mother was using 95, each program defaulted to its own directory where to put created files. She didn't know where quicken, wordperfect, msword, and all the other programs put created files which made backup almost impossible for her. Now that she is using Linux, a new writable cd in the drive on Sunday takes care of her backup needs. In fact she just leaces a blank disk in the drive at all times and the machine does its ``thing'' without the user having to manually backup the system and personal files. Roger C. Scudder Jr. wrote: > > LeRoy... > I am a big believer in the value of the backup and at the same time > not trusting of anything that is making changes to my system in an > automated fashion. Over the years I have come to expect bad things to > happen and to be ready when they do. I can see your point, but at the > same time I would never simply trust any upgrade program to preserve > config files.... even if it had done so in the past. To me backing up > configuration files and checking for, and repairing, any unwanted > overwrites is all in a days work. > -- 0 0 L & R Associates " Home Page: http://www.netaxs.com/~ldc/ _______ooO ~ Ooo_______________________________________________ LeRoy D. Cressy /\_/\ ldc@netaxs.com Computer Consulting ( o.o ) Phone (215) 535-4037 > ^ < Fax (215) 535-4285 _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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