FC backup policy was Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec  8, 2003, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> If we make backup and restore REALLY REALLY easy, then the whole idea of
> trying new bleeding edge distros becomes much less risky.

It's not really that simple.  I mean, for such backups to make any
sense, you'd have to run them onto some remote system or storage media
that's not mounted on the system under experimentation, otherwise
there's always the risk that the experimental system will corrupt your
backups and you'll end up with nothing.

And then, how many people actually have mass storage easily available
to keep such backups in a safe place?

Most users probably have a single box with an insane amount of disk
space and will naïvely think backups would be a good use for all the
extra space they don't use anyway.  But then, when their only hard
disk fails, the backups are gone too.

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