    The novice said: "I will save my working files, but not my system and application files, as they can be always be reinstalled from their distribution disks."
    The master made no reply.
    The next day, the novice's disk crashed. Three days later, the novice was still reinstalling software.

If that's your situation, it might be worth backing up applications. However, there are better solutions that make this irrelevant. For instance, using NixOS, you can literally back up a single text file describing your system setup, and you can recreate the system from it automatically in minutes, guaranteed to be bit for bit identical.

▲ CJefferson 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In my experience that works in box like 80% of the time. Which is great! But a backup is great in case it doesn’t.

If you are wondering ‘How are you getting that much failure’, it’s because I like to freeze older versions and they often decay for one reason or another (can’t get files for example)

▲ gnull 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not guaranteed to be bit identical (the why of it is a can of worms), but it's identical enough for all practical purposes.

	▲	gf000 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At the same time it is significantly more "hardware-change" resilient, since the same backed up config file (minus perhaps some very system specific lines that you may or may not have) can bring up a functionally equivalent working system on quite distinct other hardware as well.

▲ avinoth 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is it possible to do that through Veracity? I don't want to use a non-Veracity based solution when Veracity already supports it.

▲ cyberax 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I typically use restores from backups for my personal computer as opportunities to clean things up.

▲ drybjed an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Tell that to MinIO users, lol.