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Why not? Normal backups for hardware failure and stuff would cover that.

• gchamonlive 2y ago
  because if you don't trust your OS how can you trust its output? Or that it won't delete something important that will cascade into your backups without you knowing, poisoning the backups? There is always the problem of trusting trust https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
  • Saris 2y ago
    You can't trust any OS fully for that IMO. There have been file corruption bugs on Linux filesystems too. And there's always the possibility of an app you install having a bug and corrupting things as well. One example is Nextcloud had a bug that reset the date/time on my files to 0/0/0 0:0 which required a full restore from backups. That's why having backups is important, if you have staggered versioning that goes back at least a year or more, and you notice something is wrong eventually, you can recover from just about anything.