Ask HN: Your computer dies. But it's fine because you've done X. What is X?

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16 years ago

Could you share your tips for backing up your system so that you can get up and running on a new computer as quickly as possible? I'm talking programs and configuration as well as data.

I want to improve my current setup (Ubuntu, though advice for any platform is great), which is:

Documents and code on Dropbox.

Complete package list (dpkg -l) written to a file also written to my Dropbox folder via a daily cron job. This can be fed back to a fresh installation.

Media - music, videos, photos - backed up to an external hard drive.

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