Unix Backup and Recovery

Trust Me About the Backups

Here’s a little more backup humor that has been passed around the Internet a few times. This is another parody based on the song “Use Sunscreen,” by Mary Schmich, which was a rewrite of a speech attributed to Kurt Vonnegut. (He never actually wrote or gave the speech.) Oh, never mind. Just read it!

Back up your hard drive.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, backing up would be it.

The necessity of regular backups is shown by the fact that your hard drive has a MTBF printed on it, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the freedom and innocence of your newbieness.

Oh, never mind. You will not understand the freedom and innocence of newbieness until they have been overtaken by weary cynicism.

But trust me, in three months, you’ll look back on www.deja.com at posts you wrote and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how witty you really were.

You are not as bitter as you imagine.

Write one thing every day that is on topic.

Chat.

Don’t be trollish in other peoples newsgroups.

Don’t put up with people who are trollish in yours.

Update your virus software.

Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.

The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember the praise you receive.

Forget the flames.

If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Get a good monitor.

Be kind to your eyesight.

You’ll miss it when it’s gone.

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