Back Up

[Anthony Messina]

On Thursday 29 January 2009 15:49:45 Donald Allen wrote:
> > i also agree that backing up, especially outside of the ms windows world,
> > is better managed at the system level rather than the application level.
> >
> > however, those coming from ms windows will have much more experience with
> > each application having it's own way to save the same thing to separate
> > places.
> >
> > ms money has it, quicken has it (at least they both did before i switched
> > to gnucash about 2 years ago).
> >
> > i think it must give some people a fuzzy feeling to be told they're
> > backing something up each and every time as opposed to "the rsync fairy
> > does it at 2am while you're sleeping."
>
> Probably true, but doing stuff that feels good, as opposed to really
> thinking it through, frequently leads to a bad outcome, e.g., "let's
> reduce taxes for the first time ever during a war and turn a surplus
> into adding $5e12 to the national debt, let's use lots of leverage,
> and above all, let's go SHOPPING!".

right.  that's why i'm in the rsync group.

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