I received this comment by mail, from "Pablo":

> Your latest post Underestimating Debian made me think because I also run a lot of old hardware

> with Debian and I have backups but they are not very well organized.

> My recipe to cope with the dangers of probable failures of old hardware

> is **more old hardware**! :) I recently could take an old desktop

> computer from work, installed Debian on it and it is pretty fast. So

> besides my 7 year old 10" netbook I have now another "production" machine

> ready. A loss of my netbook would still be painful but I now know I

> could continue. I use "Unison" to synchronize my important files between

> the two machines and it works bidirectional. Another option is to use

> embedded arm devices for backups and as a spare machine if everything

> breaks...