To: Nick Andre
  Re: Re: backup for windows pc?
  By: Nick Andre to Arelor on Thu Sep 21 2023 04:04 pm

 >
 > I'm one of those people... the habit of having replacement parts, identical
 > things stuck with me a lonnnnnng time ago. Am using a laptop which is a
 > very common model; all the parts are cheap. If its totally destroyed or
 > stolen or whatever its really not a big deal... easily replaced, nothing
 > fancy.
 >
 > My images can be restored to different hardware. I tested this with a backed
 > up image of a desktop which got restored to Vsphere.
 >

so how awesome is your windows xp system that you have all these irreplaceable
programs that you don't want to run setup.exe on and apparently spend a lot of
time setting up?

 > What happened were the typical Windows quirks like re-activating Windows etc
 > but all of the apps and profile settings were spot on. I do agree with you
 > that disaster-recovery seems to be an afterthought in Windows.

windows has got that shit down pat now though.  if something goes wrong system
restore can pretty much deal with it.  I had a weird issue last week and i
figured fuck it, give it a shot instead of wasting time investigating it.
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