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From: DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca>
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Subject: Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think) [Solved]
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:37:41 -0500
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On 11/24/2024 11:30 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote at 20:33 this Sunday (GMT):
>> On 11/24/2024 2:47 PM, Lameass Larry wrote:
>>
>>
>>> my regular backup which was already 4 weeks old
>>
>> 4 weeks?  That's 100% proof you don't do anything worthwhile on your
>> Linux crapbox.
> 
> 
> To be fair, I don't back up as often as I should either..


Losing even half a day's work is way too much.  It takes just a few 
minutes to do a twice- or thrice-daily incremental backup.

I do need to make an off-site or cloud backup of the most important stuff.