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Everything except my former laptop's predecessor's predecessor have eased into the new year without problems. (I've finally pulled myself together to dismantle the Pentium-class Omnibook 3000; apart from the clock reset, it booted up just fine; even the battery almost lasted through the OS boot.)
No big year-2010 problems, neither; I only had to tweak my file glob for backup files (*.199?????? *.20???????) to be less short-sighted. Gosh, do I really make these ad-hoc backups for over 15 years now, using the same self-written tools and integrations for so many years?!
Well, it certainly has served me well over the years; my losses due to hard disk crashes and the inevitable mistakes have been small. Though I use modern revision control systems like Subversion and Git, too (for more and more use cases), this low-tech backup strategy has been the backbone of my personal backup strategy, and I take those tools everywhere I ssh and rdesktop to.

news archive 2009
news archive 2008
news archive 2007
news archive 2006
news archive - very old stuff