From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 20 Feb 2026 20:32:44 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:   
      
   > Which means he consider one doesn't have backup. So the first tip   
   > should be to have backups before considering anything else.   
      
   Speaking of backups, you know as well as I do that they are far too   
   commonly neglected. Every time a discussion about doing them comes up   
   in some of these newsgroups, I get the feeling that the very concept   
   itself seems to be poorly understood by some. Too often, the   
   suggestion is made that you must make “image” backups, which require   
   special tools and are cumbersome to restore, instead of just doing   
   regular file copies which can be managed with standard Linux   
   file-manipulation tools.   
      
   I think these misconceptions could be coming from Windows users (or   
   ex-Windows users) who are too accustomed to Windows ways of doing   
   things ...   
      
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