From: Gordon@leaf.net.nz   
      
   On 2025-12-17, Paul  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   Let us not forget, doing some alterations often invites Murphy to the scene   
   and you end you up with a total mess. Hence the best practice to do a backup   
   first. Doing an image allows to get back you to get back to the "start"   
   which is alot better than starting from scratch.   
      
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