Strong helpful hint: NEVER copy important things to/from the original place. Always copy to/from a copy and when the copy is validated mv -f it in place of what you are replacing. Depending on the size of the something you will replace you may have to add storage to a system (USB disks work great). Remember that mv does not normally work across volumes when doing this. It is also immensely useful to have dual boot systems with a smaller installation as 'rescue' system. I have never used one remotely but for local operation a 5-10GB 'rescue' partition on a 80GB disk is the closest thing I know to manna. I suppose that one can arrange the boot manager such that a 'hot' reboot into the rescue partition can be done remotely. A partition as small as 2GB will hold a knoppix hdd install that should get you going asap in case of trouble (and much faster than running from CD due to hw speed issues).
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