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I was hoping for everyone to contribute and list their backup solutions.
For me, there are three SSD drives in the box. One is /, one is /home,
and one is a non-bootable drive formatted to EXT3 that I use Lucky Backup
on to keep another copy of /home on.
In addition to that, Timeshift also writes to this drive manually whenever
I feel a good duplicate of / is in order. Here also is a FoxClone backup,
not clone, of /.
Outside of the box, I use just one SSD drive that I connect via USB 3.0
cable and occasionally, usually every month or month and half, create a
clone of / using Fox Clone. It can function as a replacement, with no
further alterations or modifications needed, and boot the machine if the
main drive were to suddenly brick itself. It doesn't stay connected to the computer and is only used when making the clone.
Then, I have several 64GB flash drives that I keep important and
meaningful images on and important documents and files just copied and
pasted from the /home folder instead of using Lucky Backup. On each of
these is also a duplicate of the user .config folder
As a last defense against catastrophe, the images and important documents
and files are written to a DVD about once a year, just in case.
I think this is pretty sensible, without being overdone, and may save me
one day if things go askew somehow. But, I've been pretty roundly
criticized online in other places for not taking backups seriously enough
and not having sufficiently robust practices. I supposedly didn't back up often enough either.
One person was adamant that I place backup drives in a bank vault, like
she did, or I was out of my mind. She asked me what happened if the house burned down, what then? What happens if a tornado swipes away your home
while you are gone, flood, etc...
After that exchange with her, I put a 64GB flash drive backup, of little files like pix and documents, in my car's glove box. I just don't want to get too involved.
What do you think? Tell the board about your backup solution.
I have an external hard drive, I just copy important files to it periodically. Right now it's connected to my new mini PC, because I
haven't committed to copying the files onto the SSD yet, since I'm still evaluating whether I want to stick with Win11 24H2, rather than
replacing it with Debian 13.
I have an external hard drive, I just copy important files to it
periodically. Right now it's connected to my new mini PC, because I
haven't committed to copying the files onto the SSD yet, since I'm still
evaluating whether I want to stick with Win11 24H2, rather than
replacing it with Debian 13.
Did you take the drives out of your previous computer, the one with the
bad GPU?
I was hoping for everyone to contribute and list their backup solutions.
For me, there are three SSD drives in the box. One is /, one is /home,
and one is a non-bootable drive formatted to EXT3 that I use Lucky Backup
on to keep another copy of /home on.
In addition to that, Timeshift also writes to this drive manually whenever
I feel a good duplicate of / is in order. Here also is a FoxClone backup, >not clone, of /.
Outside of the box, I use just one SSD drive that I connect via USB 3.0 >cable and occasionally, usually every month or month and half, create a >clone of / using Fox Clone. It can function as a replacement, with no >further alterations or modifications needed, and boot the machine if the >main drive were to suddenly brick itself. It doesn't stay connected to the >computer and is only used when making the clone.
Then, I have several 64GB flash drives that I keep important and
meaningful images on and important documents and files just copied and >pasted from the /home folder instead of using Lucky Backup. On each of
these is also a duplicate of the user .config folder
As a last defense against catastrophe, the images and important documents >and files are written to a DVD about once a year, just in case.
I think this is pretty sensible, without being overdone, and may save me
one day if things go askew somehow. But, I've been pretty roundly >criticized online in other places for not taking backups seriously enough >and not having sufficiently robust practices. I supposedly didn't back up >often enough either.
One person was adamant that I place backup drives in a bank vault, like
she did, or I was out of my mind. She asked me what happened if the house >burned down, what then? What happens if a tornado swipes away your home >while you are gone, flood, etc...
After that exchange with her, I put a 64GB flash drive backup, of little >files like pix and documents, in my car's glove box. I just don't want to >get too involved.
What do you think? Tell the board about your backup solution.
I was hoping for everyone to contribute and list their backup solutions.
For me, there are three SSD drives in the box. One is /, one is /home,
and one is a non-bootable drive formatted to EXT3 that I use Lucky
Backup on to keep another copy of /home on.
In addition to that, Timeshift also writes to this drive manually
whenever I feel a good duplicate of / is in order. Here also is a
FoxClone backup, not clone, of /.
Outside of the box, I use just one SSD drive that I connect via USB 3.0
cable and occasionally, usually every month or month and half, create a
clone of / using Fox Clone. It can function as a replacement, with no
further alterations or modifications needed, and boot the machine if the
main drive were to suddenly brick itself. It doesn't stay connected to
the computer and is only used when making the clone.
Then, I have several 64GB flash drives that I keep important and
meaningful images on and important documents and files just copied and
pasted from the /home folder instead of using Lucky Backup. On each of
these is also a duplicate of the user .config folder
As a last defense against catastrophe, the images and important
documents and files are written to a DVD about once a year, just in
case.
I think this is pretty sensible, without being overdone, and may save me
one day if things go askew somehow. But, I've been pretty roundly
criticized online in other places for not taking backups seriously
enough and not having sufficiently robust practices. I supposedly didn't
back up often enough either.
One person was adamant that I place backup drives in a bank vault, like
she did, or I was out of my mind. She asked me what happened if the
house burned down, what then? What happens if a tornado swipes away your
home while you are gone, flood, etc...
After that exchange with her, I put a 64GB flash drive backup, of little files like pix and documents, in my car's glove box. I just don't want
to get too involved.
What do you think? Tell the board about your backup solution.
I was hoping for everyone to contribute and list their backup solutions.
For me, there are three SSD drives in the box. One is /, one is /home,
and one is a non-bootable drive formatted to EXT3 that I use Lucky Backup
on to keep another copy of /home on.
In addition to that, Timeshift also writes to this drive manually whenever
I feel a good duplicate of / is in order. Here also is a FoxClone backup,
not clone, of /.
Outside of the box, I use just one SSD drive that I connect via USB 3.0
cable and occasionally, usually every month or month and half, create a
clone of / using Fox Clone. It can function as a replacement, with no
further alterations or modifications needed, and boot the machine if the
main drive were to suddenly brick itself. It doesn't stay connected to the computer and is only used when making the clone.
Then, I have several 64GB flash drives that I keep important and
meaningful images on and important documents and files just copied and
pasted from the /home folder instead of using Lucky Backup. On each of
these is also a duplicate of the user .config folder
As a last defense against catastrophe, the images and important documents
and files are written to a DVD about once a year, just in case.
I think this is pretty sensible, without being overdone, and may save me
one day if things go askew somehow. But, I've been pretty roundly
criticized online in other places for not taking backups seriously enough
and not having sufficiently robust practices. I supposedly didn't back up often enough either.
One person was adamant that I place backup drives in a bank vault, like
she did, or I was out of my mind. She asked me what happened if the house burned down, what then? What happens if a tornado swipes away your home
while you are gone, flood, etc...
After that exchange with her, I put a 64GB flash drive backup, of little files like pix and documents, in my car's glove box. I just don't want to get too involved.
What do you think? Tell the board about your backup solution.
On 8/25/2025 4:07 AM, CtrlAltDel wrote:
I have an external hard drive, I just copy important files to it
periodically. Right now it's connected to my new mini PC, because I
haven't committed to copying the files onto the SSD yet, since I'm still >>> evaluating whether I want to stick with Win11 24H2, rather than
replacing it with Debian 13.
Did you take the drives out of your previous computer, the one with the
bad GPU?
Salvaging the dead computer's parts is a future project, when I have
money to really do something big again, in the meantime what I'm using
is great.
