“‘I need to change the batteries in my Visor again,’ my wife
said.‘OK, now if I swap the old AAA’s fast enough, I won’t lose any
data,’ I muttered to myself for the 47th time. ‘Perhaps I ought to
back up the Visor’s data this time,’ I silently continued.“Then, the familiar realization hit me again. I’ve been using
Linux totally at home for quite a while and the last time the PDA
was backed up was when I still had access to a Windows box. Has it
been that long?“Bad sysadmin! Double bad sysadmin for not backing up the wife’s
data! Time to figure how to save myself a lot of grief and get that
Visor data over to the old dependable SuSE Linux laptop. Here’s how
I did it…”
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