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Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link



On Wednesday 12 April 2006 2:16 pm, Curt Howland wrote:
> Good thing you had a full backup. The only thing I backup is user data
> (and /etc/*) so I would have had to do a fresh rebuild. Hmm, maybe
> that's not such a bad idea anyway. Flush out those obsolete libraries
> and applications on the list this morning like "kdm".  :(

My painless backup strategy is I have a mondorescue set that gets updated
every six months or so and I have a rsync mirror on an external usb
HD that gets updated at least weekly. 

I have a little script that mounts the usb drive, rsyncs everything and then
unmounts the drive.
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