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   On Fri, 12/19/2025 12:57 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:58:05 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 12/18/2025 7:49 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Never bothered with image copies. The files are the important thing.   
   >>>   
   >> While updating Devuan, it was only taking 1 minute 30 seconds to make   
   >> safety copies of the disk. It's pretty easy to do. They're compressed   
   >> to save space.   
   >   
   > Wonderful. So how do you do selective restores?   
   >   
      
   I don't need that in this case.   
      
   These are not archival backups, they are   
   "all or nothing safety backups".   
      
   I prepare my LM221, make a safety backup, then do the Upgrade to 222.   
   If it falls over and is not (quickly) recoverable, I can   
   just pave over the mess and try again. This assumes I know what   
   I did wrong the first time, as far as trying again goes.   
      
   To do archival backups with mount capability (similar historically   
   to how other backup products did it), that might require a commercial   
   offering if you want "comfort features".   
      
   I just don't consider it attractive to be pissing around   
   with NCurses interfaces at a pressure time or when I'm angry   
   with how things are going. Or using a "GUI interface", where the   
   GUI designer added no value to the exercise, and it is a GUI   
   that line-for-line replaces the NCurses interface.   
      
   Since the other day, I moved a MSDOS partitioned disk and its   
   partitions, to a GPT partitioned disk (manually, by hand, with a   
   calculator for company), I am getting close to the point of writing   
   my own software :-) This topic is very annoying, to say the least.   
   The nice thing is, there are component parts,   
   and you do not have to build everything from scratch.   
      
   I have done crazy stuff before. When I fed a Macintosh disk drive to   
   GParted, and GParted absolutely destroyed it (I had a backup...),   
   I wrote 300 lines of code to do the partition operations myself.   
   And it worked. The job was, to take a large number of partitions   
   off one disk, and put one partition per disk on other disks. If I   
   get sufficiently annoyed with an outcome, that's the sorta thing   
   that happens. I'm not a software developer, so this isn't easy.   
   It takes a lot of Googles to write code, when you don't know how :-)   
      
      Paul   
      
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