Hi everyone!
I need to switch to a new, stable distro.
I used Mandrake-Mandriva-Mageia for around 20 years now, and as I am using
my machines more and more for remote work for my employer, I am used to
make full-backups of them, to be on the safe side.
Usually, I use one partition for data (/dev/sda1) and one swap partition.
For creating backups I boot from install DVD and select "rescue boot" to
get a rootshell, mount the data partition and make a tgz archive of all
the data, stored on an external storage.
Restoring goes similar, though only creating and formatting the partitions and writing the MBR did not work properly and I never found out, why. But this never was an issue:
For storing back the backup - or creating one more new machine from
backup, I just make a minimal-install, boot into rescue-mode from install DVD, mount data patition of the disk as well as backup storage. Then I delete everything on the data partition and replace it with the data
coming from the backup tgz.
After that, of course, the newest updates have to be installed that came
out between creating the backup and restoring it.
So, my question is, if someone works similarly with Ubuntu, or, if this is not possible or more complicated.
I'd highly appreciate to hear about your ideas and experiences!
Thanks,
best regards,
Markus
Hi everyone!
I need to switch to a new, stable distro.
I used Mandrake-Mandriva-Mageia for around 20 years now, and as I am using my machines more and more for remote work for my employer, I am used to
make full-backups of them, to be on the safe side.
Usually, I use one partition for data (/dev/sda1) and one swap partition.
For creating backups I boot from install DVD and select "rescue boot" to
get a rootshell, mount the data partition and make a tgz archive of all
the data, stored on an external storage.
Restoring goes similar, though only creating and formatting the partitions and writing the MBR did not work properly and I never found out, why. But this never was an issue:
For storing back the backup - or creating one more new machine from
backup, I just make a minimal-install, boot into rescue-mode from install DVD, mount data patition of the disk as well as backup storage. Then I delete everything on the data partition and replace it with the data
coming from the backup tgz.
After that, of course, the newest updates have to be installed that came
out between creating the backup and restoring it.
So, my question is, if someone works similarly with Ubuntu, or, if this is not possible or more complicated.
I'd highly appreciate to hear about your ideas and experiences!
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.
In <kq8900Fc2bqU1@mid.individual.net> 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.
I am used to
make full-backups of them, to be on the safe side.
On 29/10/2023 17:01, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:ZjoX3sw>
Why not try using Macrium Reflect ISO file that can be run from Ventoy
I am used to make full-backups of them, to be on the safe side.
boot media?
<https://mega.nz/file/ubZTHAZC#ouHCtILihmMN07iPtvcx9dqfls6cKSEWbiR-
I'm assuming you know what Ventoy is <https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html> but if not post back and
somebody will tell you about the magic of it.
On 10/29/23 10:01, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:and
Hi everyone!
I need to switch to a new, stable distro.
I used Mandrake-Mandriva-Mageia for around 20 years now, and as I am
using my machines more and more for remote work for my employer, I am
used to make full-backups of them, to be on the safe side.
Since you are familiar with the originating distros of Mandrake
Mandriva why not the Oldest fork i.e. PCLinuxOS. It is a conservative
but rolling release.
There is a great forum at:
<https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php>
The main site with directions to download is at: <http://www.pclinuxos.com/>
I use the KDE version myself but Mate and XFCE are available.
There are other DE's available from Community as iso files.
There is a newsletter published monthly.
On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 10:27:24 -0700 Bobbie Sellers wrote:
On 10/29/23 10:01, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:and
Hi everyone!
I need to switch to a new, stable distro.
I used Mandrake-Mandriva-Mageia for around 20 years now, and as I am
using my machines more and more for remote work for my employer, I am
used to make full-backups of them, to be on the safe side.
Since you are familiar with the originating distros of Mandrake
Mandriva why not the Oldest fork i.e. PCLinuxOS. It is a conservative
but rolling release.
There is a great forum at:
<https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php>
The main site with directions to download is at:
<http://www.pclinuxos.com/>
I use the KDE version myself but Mate and XFCE are available.
There are other DE's available from Community as iso files.
There is a newsletter published monthly.
Hi Bobbie,
thanks for your info!
I tried the latest PCLinuxOS 2023 Xfce4 in Virtualbox, and I could boot
into livemode, but the OS refused to install it on HD. When selecting the language setting, the installer (main.py) froze and nothing went ahead.
Besides this, I saw that PCLinuxOS comes along with an hybride package manager, apt-rpm.
I am asking this here because I saw that PCLinux OS has fewer packages in total as Ubuntu. So, can Ubuntu packages taken and installed on PCLinux
OS, as long as every dependency is fulfilled also?
Thanks,
best regards,
Markus
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