Subj : Re: ArakNet
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 05:00 pm

-=> Nightfox wrote to cr1mson <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: ArakNet
 Ni>   By: cr1mson to Gamgee on Tue Nov 11 2025 03:53 am

 Ga>> It's "commonly overmissed" (?) by *who*?  Certainly not me.

 cr> For people that have slow connections, limited on hard drive space, slower
 cr> computers or anything like that.  Everyone is not equal unfortunately.

 Ni> Why would your internet connection speed be a concern for making a
 Ni> backup? A backup can be simply copying it to an external drive. And if
 Ni> what you need to back up doesn't take up much space, USB flash drives
 Ni> are fairly inexpensive, too.

Not to mention, a complete backup is not needed every night.  Using an 
incremental (changed files only) with something like 'rsync' takes 
literally seconds.

Long story short, there really is no reason to not have backups of 
important stuff.



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