From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 12/16/2025 8:30 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:41:03 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> Don't forget your imaging-style backup before you begin.   
   >   
   > “Imaging-style” backups are a Windows thing.   
   >   
      
   You don't understand, Timmy.   
      
   I want to set the restore running, go out in the kitchen,   
   make coffee, and when I come back, Like Dorothy, we're   
   back in Kansas with our little dog Toto. No messing around.   
      
   I'm not going to sit there biting my nails to the   
   quick writing rsync commands, or using the NCurses   
   interface on some tool, or wondering what settings   
   were or were not backed up in any pseudo backup tool.   
   For a pseudo backup tool, I must know precisely what   
   it is doing, and I don't know those details. It is   
   hard to trust a thing when you don't know which bits   
   it has covered for you.   
      
   I want convenience, not hair loss.   
      
   Thus, the imaging suggestion.   
      
   The entire disk is recorded in one file. The software   
   takes the one file and puts it all back. I don't have   
   to worry about a thing. There are no half measures   
   in the method I use.   
      
      Paul   
      
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