In my dumber days when I ran Microsoft Windows, I was more concerned with backup programs. After I moved into the Linux desktop, I became much less paranoid about system failures. The Linux environment just never crashed.

That does not mean that I never make backup copies of my critical data files. It's just that I do not worry about the Linux OS crashing to the point that I have to reinstall everything from scratch. That was the nudge with Windows that pushed me to migrating to Linux.

Still, stuff does happen when you entrust your data to a computer. Despite Linux's resilience, hardware issues can still render the OS, a key program or a file it produced unretrievable. Hey, stuff happens.

So I am prepared for mishaps with two easy-to-use backup programs. Keep and Back In Time take care of my working data and system configuration.

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