Making backups is good

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Since I bought the mini HP, I have an additional disc-space of 160 GB. So, I took as a custom syncing my old and dear laptop with this new one using rsync. For some stupid reason, but I start thinking that this is something related to the Murphy's Law, I didn't make a sync these last 2 days. I made a mistake with LVM when resizing my /home partition in the old laptop (which I was using during these 2 days) and now I am crossing my fingers to be able to recover the filesystem.

So, if you are reading this I'll advise you something. For the sake of god, If you can maintain backups constantly, do not ever hesitate to have them as updated as possible, so that you won't feel like a dumbass just like I feel right now. For being a lazy, I am now having lots of work to do in order to repair my file system. If I had made a backup I wouldn't have been feeling so worried about this. The worst of all, it is that I am working in other stuff like writing my thesis, so I cannot concentrate...

Remember, making backups is something very good. (That phrase was for me)

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  1. Aigarius says:

    ALWAYS make your backup process fully automatic, so that it is impossible to forget to do it.

  2. Muammar says:

    You are right. I'll create some scripts in order to make the process automatic. Well, life sometimes let you learn something new in a good manner or in a bad one. :-/

  3. Michael M. says:

    The problem with automating backups is that it presumes there is an always-on repository for backups. I backup to a USB hard-drive that I don't have running 24/7. I turn in on, plug it in, do my backup, unplug it, turn it off. How can I automate something like that, without leaving the drive on and mounted permanently, which would be a waste of energy?


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