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Mon, Sep 22, 2008

Backups are good

Posted at 12:13 pm MDT to Technology

Friday night into Saturday morning, I did a full backup of my /home partition, which includes all of the virtual machine images for vmware.

I also copy /etc into /home/etc_sav at the start of a backup, and dump the list of installed packages into it, so I should be able to recreate my current configuration from bare iron and a Kubuntu iso if I need to.

It's a goog thing I backed up. Something I did yesterday trashed the Win 2003 image. It worked fine until I shut it down, but won't boot this morning. Most of the files are still there: I can get at them by booting a Linux live disk if I need to. In any case, my ClearQuest database is hosted on the host machine and the ClearCase vobs are hosted on a different virtual image, so I haven't lost all the work I did yesterday, just the time to pull the 20Gig VM image back from the server.

If you have not backed up your stuff lately, do it now. This has been a public service announcement.

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