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Repeat after me — backup, backup, backup…

…your laptop’s disk.

Because they may suddenly and completely fail you.

Well, I’ve started to use unison an
d sync’ing
with the large disks at work and at home. For example, here is
what my ~/.unison/laptop-to-workstation.prf looks like.

    # Unison preferences file
    root = /home/marc
    root = ssh://root@WORKSTATIONNAME.zko.dec.com//BACKUPS/laptop
    ignore = Path .unison
    ignore = Name unison.log
    ignore = Path mnt
    ignore = Path .mozilla
    ignore = Path .nautilus
    ignore = Path .thumbnails

For the moment, I’ve borrowed my wife’s Compaq Armada M700, squeezed
the W2k parition down and installed debian/sarge on the 4G partition
left over. Field service should be returning the nice Evo N610c in a
day or two. Hey, it gives me the opportunity of completely
documenting the steps of messing with the preinstalled WinXP Pro and
adding debian and SUSE to a Evo N610c.

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One Response to “Repeat after me — backup, backup, backup…”

  1. eddie kuang says:
    2/23/2006 at 4:26 pm

    Did you ever get it to work. I tried searchign th eblog to find your blow by blow , but could not find it. I am currently trying to load sarge on my works evo n610c on a 9gb partition to coexist with XP. I was really looking forward to reading your experience .

    Regards,

    Eddie

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