I’ve lost everything and I don’t know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn’t pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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    Why versioning and not backups? I get the part of commit messages, but that’s hardly worth the effort for me. If I have a config file which works, I usually keep it that way. And if it stops working, my old documentation is outdated anyway.

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      Why do we use versioning for code instead of backups? Simple, versioning is better than backups for almost all text files, since it’s a granular backup with change messages etc.

      You can ask the same question about code.

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      1 year ago

      I use etckeeper to autocommit changes in /etc as git just has better and faster tools to look at the changes of a fle, compared to backup tools.

      It’s just so easy to do that there hardly is any point in not doing it.