On 19/11/2018 14.27, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 18/11/18 02:03 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
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I've seen YaST warn me too robustly too often to have strong doubts of it's ability in this area.
Ah. You trust programmers. I've been one. I've been one for military-grade s/w and had to get past tests and testers like you would not believe, that would reduce people I've interviewed to tears (and have!). I don't trust my own code that made it past those reviews. And the youth, the commercial pressures ... sorry, I don't trust programmers and I think that it is foolish on your part to do so.
Do I trust backup software? No, I don't trust backup software either, that's why I verify by doing restores from backup regularly.
There's a Schrödinger's Cat law of backups. Until you 'open the box' and do the restore, the backup is in an indeterminate state.
That's why I recognise that 'archiving a project' is not the same as a backup, and that's why I think the the backup-by-snapshot is not suitable for a lot of the work I and others do. Archiving, even RCS, is not the same as backups.
Yes, I have seen YaST format the /home partition without warning. I may have written bugzillas about that. Yes, YaST did say in the middle of a list of things that it was going to format this or that partition. Not prominently that it was going to format /home. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)