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[John Aldrich]

Quoting Kevin Kempter <kevink at consistentstate.com>:
> FWIW:
>
> I never (ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever...) run any updates (no
> matter how insignificant they seem) without first running an rsync   
> of my system
> to a backup directory. It's pretty fast given that it's a diff and in the
> inevitable case of occasional problems I can rsync my system back to  
>  a perfect
> "before I ran the updates" state if needed.
>
>
> This approach has saved me loads of grief,  I highly recommend it.
>
Nice if you have the space or another machine to sync to. I have neither.