From: no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de   
      
   On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:37:45 -0500 Harold Stevens wrote:   
      
   > In  Gordon:   
   >   
   >> Backing up is personal. You need to sort out what your ideal back up   
   >> is, what do you need to achieve, and where to put the backups.   
   >   
   > Agree. IMO, backups at the individual user level are not typical   
   > cookie-cutter problems. It's a varied set of trade-offs.   
   >   
   > One thing I'm a big fan about: offsite (disaster) backups.   
   >   
   > Example: I live in an apartment and may see fire/water damage.   
   >   
   > I view most OS (system) as taking care of itself (using original   
   > sources/media, and current update resources).   
   >   
   > For me, that leaves  userspace (~/), about 1.5 GB (uncompressed)   
   > including some other miscellaneous data sets.   
   >   
   > A compressed tarfile of that easily fits on a 16GB USB stick, so have a   
   > kludge bash script do that for me a coupla times a day or so (and before   
   > poweroff/suspend).   
   >   
   > I keep my OS and homespace backups on two USB sticks, whenever I leave   
   > the apartment.   
   >   
   > Not a classy or large-scale solution, but good enough for me.   
      
   Personal data is the most important and this has to be safely stored.   
   Fully agree.   
      
   But, I'd like to do a little bit more:   
      
   - When backuped a whole machine as soon as it is set up properly, it is   
   easy and a matter of one or two hours to make one or more copies of it by   
   simply restoring the backup to new machines.   
   So, you can create your new office infrastructure within some hours.   
      
   - When working with Mandriva/Mageia some years ago, I was stupid enough to   
   enable "update-testing" repo as source for installation packages.   
   One day, an update of a QT-based package was introduced, and this caused   
   so many dependencies, that the machine no longer worked properly.   
   I tried severaly hours to roll back everything, but finally I realized   
   that just saving personal data and deleting the rest, after that restoring   
   the most recent backup, saved me lots of time.   
      
   I've just seen that Ubuntu installation DVD can be used in "Live-Mode" and   
   there every storage medium like internal HD, external backup medium can be   
   mounted. Even hdparm to make password-protected HDs accessible, is there.   
      
   So, this one can be used to make and restore backups, as I'm used to do.   
      
   Best regards,   
      
   Markus   
      
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