On 5/12/2009, "Philip Webb" <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >Anyway, don't do testing on the machine you use for everyday computing. >If you want to get into testing, use a dedicated machine for it.
I've been using a separate partition on an existing machine to run a ~amd64 system for evaluation, and yesterday I got my comeuppance. I wanted to go back to an earlier backup of the test system*, so I took a backup of my home directory with its e-mail history, wiped the partition and restored the old backup followed by the home directory. Wrong. I'd mixed the home directories of the two systems and so I lost the last five weeks' worth of e-mails. And no, I hadn't been drinking or getting over-tired. Just goes to show - you can't be too careful. * The current test system had a series of KDE-4 problems, which I thought must have been caused by the patch bug, but simply remerging everything installed since then hadn't fixed them.
