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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Jeff Layman   
   Re: Copying home folder to new machine   
   02 Sep 25 22:46:04   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 16:26:18 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:   
      
   > ... but when I plugged in the USB stick and tried "Restore" it   
   > reported that there were no backups! I thought the whole point of   
   > having a backup is that it would be easy to restore to a new HD if   
   > the old one had failed.   
      
   This is why you need to test your backup system by doing an actual   
   restore. Without that, you don’t actually have a backup system.   
      
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