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On 12/27/2012 08:47 PM, David Kramer wrote: > On 12/27/2012 08:28 PM, David Kramer wrote: >> After seeing everyone's great comments (including "install Linux"), I've >> come to the realization that I'm probably best off doing a very >> occasional mirror image of Windows, and use Unison to copy off my >> documents that change. Maybe I'll have to reinstall windows, maybe the >> image will restore. The only for-pay applications installed on either >> Windows box is MS Office, and my Steam games which will reinstall >> themselves with no problems. >> >> Thanks for all the great advice. >> > I forgot to mention 2 things: > > - I'm liking Crash Plan on Linux. I'll have to figure out the best way > to use it on my servers, where I back up to normally-disconnected USB > disks. Maybe that just means kicking off backups manually. Maybe that > will mean backing up from one machine to another automatically > frequently and also doing backups to USB occasionally. But I'm running > it on my main desktop Linux machine and the initial backup wasn't > significantly larger than the .tgz that I usually create as backups. > > - My Windows 7 laptop, less than a month old, is already caught in an > upgrade loop, where it updates stuff and after the next reboot it says > it fails and undoes the updates. Over and over. Tell me again why this > OS is so popular? How would you like to upgrade to Windows 8 :-) -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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