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Modern AI agents install packages everywhere — pip in venvs, npm globally, configs scattered across /etc, ~/.config, /opt, custom paths. After one week: 504.6M in /usr, 448.9M in /root, 43.3M in /var — home-dir-only backup misses 55% of changes.
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