Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Apr 23 2022 22:02:14

 Ar>  >  bo> There is a big difference between upgrading, and having continuity
 Ar>  >  bo> installed apps and configuration ,and installing fresh.
 Ar>  > 
 Ar>  > So on your 20 year old Debian machine you've never replaced
 Ar>  > the storage device?
 Ar>  > 
 Ar> 
 Ar> Actually, when I replace storage devices I just dump the old Operating
 Ar> System on the new storage and it certainly does not feel like a software
 Ar> upgrade.
 Ar> 
 Ar> The joys of performing backups that copy _EVERYTHING_. If something
 Ar> crashes you can just dump the whole backup in a new drive and you are
 Ar> ready to go.
 Ar> 
 Ar> --
 Ar> gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken


That is what I do.  In fact, I did it just yesterday, to replace a slightly faulty 250G drive with a 320G drive.

I still have, more or less, the filesystem I had on my first hard disk back in 1994.  My "dosbox" directory is the filesystem I had on a 386, which was copied from machine to machine.  Still has savegames and high scores from 1994.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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