On 3 December 2012 10:08, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> wrote: > > What if tools in the program remember their configuration? Losing the > > parameter set for one tool would not make me cry, however, losing all of > > them would. > > How likely is it that those two paths are on different media and one > having a > higher failure rate than the other? > Most setups don't have $XDG_DATA_HOME or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME set so their > defaults apply, meaning they are $HOME/.local/share and $HOME/.config > respectively. > Again, most setups have $HOME or even its parent directory on the same > volume.
Kevin, the discussion about losing files relates to what you back up. To summarise the blog post: data files are a priority to back up, config may be backed up but it's not important to do so, and cache isn't worth backing up. Thomas
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