[mythtv-users] Is upgrading an ancient system using apt-get recommended?

[Brian Wood]

David Schmidt wrote:
>
> [this part in response to Brian, as well]
> Well, it's not stuff I'm not caught up on, it's stuff I want to keep.
> Recipes from cooking shows I haven't had time to pause every few
> seconds to transcribe to paper (my other hobby is cooking),
> performances of music, etc. that aren't available for sale yet, etc.

"Keeping" stuff on a hard drive might not be the best idea. Every hard
drive ever made will fail, maybe in ten years, or perhaps tomorrow.

So to be safe you should backup whatever you want to keep somehow, the
easiest might be to burn it to DVDs. You could also back it up to
another drive, perhaps a USB-connected external one, but that will fail
eventually as well.

Storing anything you "want to keep" on an un-backed-up hard drive is
asking for trouble. You are essentially gambling on when the drive will
fail.

BEWW