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"Modern" problems require modern solutions (media.piefed.zip)

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (14 children)

What kind of system are you backing up on a single 1.44 mb disk? I guess “restore” just had the restore utilities.

You could boot an old pc from floppy like what later would be called a live CD. Though you were constantly switching disks. Like if you ever played Monkey Island on 5.25” floppies.

[–] brygphilomena@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago

A lot of terraform and docker compose files could fit on a floppy still.

Actually, that might be a fun thing to play with. It might not have data. But you could back up a good amount of config and deployment information and have a system to restore data to.

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