I'm familiar with backup procedures and systems, and have been pushing 
my wife (this is my home system) to let me buy or build one for quite 
some time, unfortunately it's simply not in the budget, whereas any 
downtime up to about three days is.  that's how long it owuld take me to 
reestablish internet connectivity from the ground up if our router was 
physically stolen and had to be re-built from parts from the local outlet.

Simon Hobson wrote:
> Christ Schlacta wrote:
>> I just lost all my shorewall6 configs and half my shorewall configs
>> because I forgot to add them to the NoUpgrade list before I upgraded.
>>
>> I'm nearly in tears trying to fix it, and as always IRC support is
>> useless in finding a solution to prevent it from happening again..
> 
> I think this is one area where Debian differs from other distros - it 
> doesn't put much in /etc/shorewall[6] and won't replace your 
> shorewall.conf without asking. Upgrades are pretty safe.
> 
> Of course this won't help if you just extract a tarball in situ.
> 
> Your other protection is called a backup regime.
> http://netzreport.googlepages.com/all_those_backups_waste_of_pay.html
> 
> I've always found that selling a backup system is hard work - until a 
> customer has lost something valuable/critical.
> 

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