[ale] [OT] Philosophy of Restoring from Backup

[Jim Kinney]

I will use new os install as an excuse to clear out the crufty files. How many variations of temp/tmp/test/tst/proj/tproj/testproj, etc do I really need to keep after one week, much less 4-5 years?

I really need to spend time dumping pictures. When I left Emory I went through my phone and dumped all the pictures of work stuff that weren't people. Was not amused my sync to desktop process added them back! Fixed that bug. Now I have to clear out that cruft in 2 places.

On August 26, 2020 8:26:14 AM EDT, Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>For some reason the Thunderbird and Firefox folks thought trashing
>rollback capability was a good thing. Guess I need to find
>replacements, or stick with the really old stuff.
>
>Since I needed to change OS anyway, I pulled that root drive and
>popped in another one. Besides the loss of a few e-mails due to Tbird
>issues, my backups were current. On a new OS within a couple hours,
>ready to resume my old life.
>
>But do I really want to? I have my entire home directory backed up and
>can restore with a few commands. I've done it for years. But that
>means years of cruft hiding in dot files, a lot of disk space used,
>and a variety of other potential issues.
>
>Sometimes it is good to pause at the beginning of a project and decide
>if that is worth the portion of your life it will take, and choices it
>will decide for you.
>
>Leam
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