problem. So you need to be a little bit careful. Do you have any experience, Bill, on using these kinds of backups? I've backed up to the same size hard drive, but I've never tried doing different sizes and stuff. Other than that, if anybody knows my history, I usually nuke and pave anyway. But no, that's the only time I've really backed up and it saved my bacon once or twice in my time. But I try to, if I'm going to back up, I try to have two identical drives or as identical as I can make them. And so that's just me. But, you know, I don't do any of the crazy stuff. Usually I end up killing the distro anyway. So it's just nuke and pave for me. Right. And most of my backups, quite frankly, are backing up the data and not the entire drive. When I was using Windows, I would always make a complete copy of the hard drive on a mirror drive, simply because I didn't want to go through the pain of reinstalling Windows and going through 5000 updates and waiting an hour between each update for (19/45)
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