The Tao of Backup

    The novice said: "I will save my working files, but not my system and application files, as they can be always be reinstalled from their distribution disks."
    The master made no reply.
    The next day, the novice's disk crashed. Three days later, the novice was still reinstalling software.

> The novice became suspicious and said: "Master, is all this 'Tao of Backup' stuff just so you can sell more copies of Veracity?"

> The master said: "Now you are truly enlightened."

And the cautious reader asked:

  Surely it's not a plug for some product ?

  Bah, of course, it is !

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I miss the World Wide Web, man...

After reading the title, but before visiting the link, thought this was a backup of all of Terrance Taos work.

Not to be confused with the Zen of Backup…

A novice asked the master: “What must I do to learn the Zen of Backup?” The master whacked the novice in the head, grabbed the keyboard, and ran sudo rm -rf /. The novice smiled and left feeling enlightened.

Haven't seen that in ages and thought it had moved. 20GB tape containing all the corporate goodies. That makes me smile.

Wow,.. this is so old that they still use the word "Tao" instead of "Dao". Still good advice, too.

Loss of hard disk is a great way to declutter your system just saying

> But the master had already overwritten it with a copy of DOOM.

A master after my own heart.

I like that the site is simple text (if not plain writing), but even in 1997 this multi-page layout would've a pain to read vs. a single page.

I read all the steps, but not yet enlightened.

Nice Epilogue

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The master going silent after “I have too much work to make a backup” made me wince. That one line lands harder than most checklists.

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