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<center><h1 class="frontispiece">Almanack</h1></center>
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<center><h1 class="frontispiece">Almanack</h1></center>
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<h1 class="title">Look Back Up</h1>
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<h1 class="title">Look Back Up</h1>
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<p class="author">Integrity Mather</p>
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<p class="author"><a href="/~integrity/">Integrity Mather</a></p>
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<p class="date">January 1, 2024</p>
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<p class="date">January 1, 2024</p>
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<div class="maintext">
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<div class="maintext">
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<p><img src="res/new-years-backups-initial.png" class="initial"
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<p><img src="res/new-years-backups-initial.png" class="initial"
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alt="T" /> he year ends, the North pole tips its deepest bow to the
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alt="T" /> he year ends, the North Pole tips its deepest bow to the
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darkness, and we see even large language models have been <a
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darkness, and we see even large language models have been <a
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href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/is-chatgpt-becoming-lazier-because-its-december-people-run-tests-to-find-out/">taking
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href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/is-chatgpt-becoming-lazier-because-its-december-people-run-tests-to-find-out/">taking
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it easy</a> for the winter<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref"
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it easy</a> for the winter<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref"
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wise elders of the <a
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wise elders of the <a
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href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/">Scary Devil
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href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/">Scary Devil
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Monastery</a><a href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
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Monastery</a><a href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
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role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a> and if we want to set the new year
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role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a>, and if we want to set the new year
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off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and
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off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and
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re-start its march, even at its lowest points.</p>
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re-start its march, even at its lowest points.</p>
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<p>When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity
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<p>When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity
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@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ would have to be shut down and then restarted anew. Humans need their
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respite over the holiday break: but should I have granted my server the
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respite over the holiday break: but should I have granted my server the
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same indulgence? My plan accepted that <code>boat</code> would be
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same indulgence? My plan accepted that <code>boat</code> would be
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offline for, I hoped, a small slice of time.</p>
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offline for, I hoped, a small slice of time.</p>
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<p>There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my web sites,
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<p>There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my websites,
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file syncing, and miscellaneous tools flickered, even for a moment. I
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file syncing, and miscellaneous tools flickered, even for a moment. I
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could have temporarily switched my DNS settings to point at the fresh
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could have temporarily switched my DNS settings to point at the fresh
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clean <code>tub</code>, for instance, while overwriting
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clean <code>tub</code>, for instance, while overwriting
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@ -132,19 +132,18 @@ do not lightly emphasize relaxation.</p>
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I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.</p>
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I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.</p>
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<p>Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore.
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<p>Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore.
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Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning
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Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning
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onto a CD-ROM that I could restore from. “CD’ stand now for”Cretaceous
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onto a rescue CD-ROM. “CD” now stands for “Cretaceous Disk”: I have not
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Disk”: I have not used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO
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used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO into a contemporary
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into a contemporary USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky,
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USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, and I can never
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and I can never remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced,
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remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced, humiliatingly, to read
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humiliatingly, to read <a
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<a href="https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/faq">REAR’s
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href="https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/faq">REAR’s FAQ</a>,
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FAQ</a>, where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, <a
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where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, <a
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href="https://unetbootin.github.io/">UnetBootin</a>, for achieving this.
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href="https://unetbootin.github.io/">UnetBootin</a>, for achieving this.
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In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as <a
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In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as <a
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href="https://relax-and-recover.org/rear-user-guide/basics/configuration.html">RAWDISK</a>,
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href="https://relax-and-recover.org/rear-user-guide/basics/configuration.html">RAWDISK</a>,
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which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.</p>
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which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.</p>
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<p>REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can
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<p>REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can
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introduce a tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution <a
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introduce tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution <a
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href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/borg-example.conf">borg
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href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/borg-example.conf">borg
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backup</a> package broke the restore. REAR <a
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backup</a> package broke the restore. REAR <a
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href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/0bd84e259c7c61612a1d8eb296ee1e81a2cbc87b/usr/share/rear/build/default/990_verify_rootfs.sh#L51">scans
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href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/0bd84e259c7c61612a1d8eb296ee1e81a2cbc87b/usr/share/rear/build/default/990_verify_rootfs.sh#L51">scans
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detect what libraries they require, so that it may copy those over.
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detect what libraries they require, so that it may copy those over.
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Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which
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Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which
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this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom.
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this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom.
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This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime I
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This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime, I
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copied over the <a
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copied over the <a
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href="https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html#standalone-binary">binary
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href="https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html#standalone-binary">binary
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borg</a> into <code>/usr/local/bin</code> instead of the Pythonic borg
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borg</a> into <code>/usr/local/bin</code> instead of the Pythonic borg
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Sea seafarer</a>, bobbed back up from an early visit to “<a
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Sea seafarer</a>, bobbed back up from an early visit to “<a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler%27s_Green">Fiddler’s
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler%27s_Green">Fiddler’s
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Green</a>”.</p>
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Green</a>”.</p>
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<p>Testing your recovery plans during your own end-of-year downtime
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<p>Testing your recovery plans during your end-of-year downtime gives
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gives you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and
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you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and prepare
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prepare for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same?
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for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? What
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What will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to
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will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to the
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the habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and
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habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and
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integrate into your ever-evolving life?</p>
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integrate into your ever-evolving life?</p>
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<div class="signoff">
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<p><a href="/~integrity/">~Integrity Mather</a></p>
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<p>~<a href="/~integrity/">Integrity Mather</a></p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
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<section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
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role="doc-endnotes">
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Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs”, Automatic Jack,
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Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs”, Automatic Jack,
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Almnck. 1981.<a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back"
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Almnck. 1981.<a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back"
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role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
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role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
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<li id="fn2"><p><code>alt.sysadmin.recovery</code>‘s monastic wisdom, is
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<li id="fn2"><p><code>alt.sysadmin.recovery</code>’s monastic wisdom is
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only dimly remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails
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only dimly remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your
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black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup
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nails black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The
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provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of
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newsgroup provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance
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backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s <a
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of backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s
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<a
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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060423055444/http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html">extant
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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060423055444/http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html">extant
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quotes file</a>. Garvey’s document was, you may note, updated mere hours
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quotes file</a>. Garvey’s document was, you may note, updated mere hours
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before Y2K day. This lends some credence to the theory that an eldritch
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before Y2K day. This lends some credence to the theory that an eldritch
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---
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---
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author: Integrity Mather
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author: "[Integrity Mather](/~integrity/)"
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title: Look Back Up
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title: Look Back Up
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date: January 1, 2024
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date: January 1, 2024
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---
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---
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occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.
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occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.
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Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore. Since I
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Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore. Since I
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first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning onto a rescue CD-ROM. "CD" stand now for "Cretaceous Disk": I have not
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first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning onto a rescue CD-ROM. "CD" now stands for "Cretaceous Disk": I have not
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used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO into a contemporary USB
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used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO into a contemporary USB
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drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, and I can never remember how
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drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, and I can never remember how
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to do it. In the end, I was forced, humiliatingly, to read [REAR's
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to do it. In the end, I was forced, humiliatingly, to read [REAR's
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::: {.signoff}
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::: {.signoff}
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[~Integrity Mather](/~integrity/)
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~[Integrity Mather](/~integrity/)
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[^winterbreak]: Are the rumors of an AI Winter true? Do LLMs get lazier during
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phenomenon, "The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern Hemisphere
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phenomenon, "The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern Hemisphere
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Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs", Automatic Jack, Almnck. 1981.
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Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs", Automatic Jack, Almnck. 1981.
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[^scarydevilmonastery]: `alt.sysadmin.recovery`'s monastic wisdom, is only dimly
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[^scarydevilmonastery]: `alt.sysadmin.recovery`\’s monastic wisdom is only dimly
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remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails black are no
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remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails black are no
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longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup provided several
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longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup provided several
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powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of backups, the foulest of
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powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of backups, the foulest of
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which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey's [extant quotes
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which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey's [extant quotes
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<center><h1 class="frontispiece">Almanack</h1></center>
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<center><h1 class="frontispiece">Almanack</h1></center>
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<header id="title-block-header">
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<header id="title-block-header">
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<h1 class="title">Look Back Up</h1>
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<h1 class="title">Look Back Up</h1>
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<p class="author">Integrity Mather</p>
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<p class="author"><a href="/~integrity/">Integrity Mather</a></p>
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<p class="date">January 1, 2024</p>
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<p class="date">January 1, 2024</p>
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</header>
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<div class="maintext">
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<div class="maintext">
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<p><img src="res/new-years-backups-initial.png" class="initial"
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<p><img src="res/new-years-backups-initial.png" class="initial"
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alt="T" /> he year ends, the North pole tips its deepest bow to the
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alt="T" /> he year ends, the North Pole tips its deepest bow to the
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darkness, and we see even large language models have been <a
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darkness, and we see even large language models have been <a
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href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/is-chatgpt-becoming-lazier-because-its-december-people-run-tests-to-find-out/">taking
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href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/is-chatgpt-becoming-lazier-because-its-december-people-run-tests-to-find-out/">taking
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it easy</a> for the winter<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref"
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it easy</a> for the winter<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref"
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wise elders of the <a
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wise elders of the <a
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href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/">Scary Devil
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href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/">Scary Devil
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Monastery</a><a href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
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Monastery</a><a href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
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role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a> and if we want to set the new year
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role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a>, and if we want to set the new year
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off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and
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off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and
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re-start its march, even at its lowest points.</p>
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re-start its march, even at its lowest points.</p>
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<p>When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity
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<p>When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity
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@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ would have to be shut down and then restarted anew. Humans need their
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respite over the holiday break: but should I have granted my server the
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respite over the holiday break: but should I have granted my server the
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same indulgence? My plan accepted that <code>boat</code> would be
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same indulgence? My plan accepted that <code>boat</code> would be
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offline for, I hoped, a small slice of time.</p>
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offline for, I hoped, a small slice of time.</p>
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<p>There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my web sites,
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<p>There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my websites,
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file syncing, and miscellaneous tools flickered, even for a moment. I
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file syncing, and miscellaneous tools flickered, even for a moment. I
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could have temporarily switched my DNS settings to point at the fresh
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could have temporarily switched my DNS settings to point at the fresh
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clean <code>tub</code>, for instance, while overwriting
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clean <code>tub</code>, for instance, while overwriting
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I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.</p>
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I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.</p>
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<p>Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore.
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<p>Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore.
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Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning
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Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning
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onto a CD-ROM that I could restore from. “CD’ stand now for”Cretaceous
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onto a rescue CD-ROM. “CD” now stands for “Cretaceous Disk”: I have not
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Disk”: I have not used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO
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used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO into a contemporary
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into a contemporary USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky,
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USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, and I can never
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and I can never remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced,
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remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced, humiliatingly, to read
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humiliatingly, to read <a
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<a href="https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/faq">REAR’s
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href="https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/faq">REAR’s FAQ</a>,
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FAQ</a>, where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, <a
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where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, <a
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href="https://unetbootin.github.io/">UnetBootin</a>, for achieving this.
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href="https://unetbootin.github.io/">UnetBootin</a>, for achieving this.
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In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as <a
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In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as <a
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href="https://relax-and-recover.org/rear-user-guide/basics/configuration.html">RAWDISK</a>,
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href="https://relax-and-recover.org/rear-user-guide/basics/configuration.html">RAWDISK</a>,
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which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.</p>
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which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.</p>
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<p>REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can
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<p>REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can
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introduce a tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution <a
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introduce tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution <a
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href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/borg-example.conf">borg
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href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/borg-example.conf">borg
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backup</a> package broke the restore. REAR <a
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backup</a> package broke the restore. REAR <a
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href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/0bd84e259c7c61612a1d8eb296ee1e81a2cbc87b/usr/share/rear/build/default/990_verify_rootfs.sh#L51">scans
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href="https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/0bd84e259c7c61612a1d8eb296ee1e81a2cbc87b/usr/share/rear/build/default/990_verify_rootfs.sh#L51">scans
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detect what libraries they require, so that it may copy those over.
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Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which
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Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which
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this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom.
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this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom.
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This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime I
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This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime, I
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copied over the <a
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copied over the <a
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href="https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html#standalone-binary">binary
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href="https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html#standalone-binary">binary
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borg</a> into <code>/usr/local/bin</code> instead of the Pythonic borg
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borg</a> into <code>/usr/local/bin</code> instead of the Pythonic borg
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@ -168,15 +167,15 @@ like a lucky <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrvzLRgzdc">North
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Sea seafarer</a>, bobbed back up from an early visit to “<a
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Sea seafarer</a>, bobbed back up from an early visit to “<a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler%27s_Green">Fiddler’s
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler%27s_Green">Fiddler’s
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Green</a>”.</p>
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Green</a>”.</p>
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<p>Testing your recovery plans during your own end-of-year downtime
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<p>Testing your recovery plans during your end-of-year downtime gives
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gives you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and
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you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and prepare
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prepare for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same?
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for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? What
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What will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to
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will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to the
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the habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and
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habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and
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integrate into your ever-evolving life?</p>
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integrate into your ever-evolving life?</p>
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<div class="signoff">
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<div class="signoff">
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<p><a href="/~integrity/">~Integrity Mather</a></p>
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<p>~<a href="/~integrity/">Integrity Mather</a></p>
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<section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
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<section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
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role="doc-endnotes">
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role="doc-endnotes">
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@ -195,11 +194,12 @@ memo on the phenomenon, “The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern
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Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs”, Automatic Jack,
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Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs”, Automatic Jack,
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Almnck. 1981.<a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back"
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Almnck. 1981.<a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back"
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role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
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role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
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<li id="fn2"><p><code>alt.sysadmin.recovery</code>‘s monastic wisdom, is
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<li id="fn2"><p><code>alt.sysadmin.recovery</code>’s monastic wisdom is
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only dimly remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails
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only dimly remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your
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black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup
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nails black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The
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provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of
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newsgroup provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance
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backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s <a
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of backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s
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<a
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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060423055444/http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html">extant
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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060423055444/http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html">extant
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quotes file</a>. Garvey’s document was, you may note, updated mere hours
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quotes file</a>. Garvey’s document was, you may note, updated mere hours
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before Y2K day. This lends some credence to the theory that an eldritch
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before Y2K day. This lends some credence to the theory that an eldritch
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