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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 04:50:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2025 14:40:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> Keeping off-computer backups is also not a bad idea.
>
> At work we also kept source code backups off-site -- physical DVDs not 
> cloud. We used Subversion for source control so there were also many 
> machines that had checked out the whole tree. 
>
> I did use the corporate One Drive for projects I was working on, which was 
> also handy for synching between machines.
>
> I'm not as religious about backups at home. TBH I don't have that much 
> that is irreplaceable.

Same here. I do backup stuff I don't want to lose, but there's not much of 
it that's worth backing up.

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