[lubuntu-users] Bootable clone app for Lubuntu

Guang Chao guang.chao.1974 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 01:28:12 UTC 2017


I haven't seen backintime.  But whenever I need a historical filesystem,
where I can go back to any date I want, I utilize git.  I just cron
something to do the backups at regular interval, then use git manually to
go back in time. git is pretty fast too.


>>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <
>>> herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I use backintime. It is very close to apple's time machine.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> > On Jul 5, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Lu Users:
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm still trying to keep my PPC computers going, although each of
>>>> them is having one kind of problem or another . . . .  The G4 iBook is
>>>> where I have Lu 16.04 installed and generally the iBook is "OK" except it
>>>> looks like the HD is starting to go "pre-failure" on us.
>>>> >
>>>> > The iBook is dual-boot with OSX 10.4 on one side of a 40 GB HD . . .
>>>> I have the OSX side cloned to an ext HD via Carbon Copy Cloner . . . and
>>>> I've noticed in other ubuntu-esque installs I have there has been a
>>>> "Back-up" package installed . . . I believe in U-MATE 16.04, but right now
>>>> my PowerMac Sawtooth is not booting so I can't try it out--but looking
>>>> through the Lu list I didn't see anything named "Back up."
>>>> >
>>>> > I ran a Synaptic search from the Lu and it showed a bunch of
>>>> packages, including Clonezilla, and rsync . . . I don't have many files
>>>> that would need to be "saved" . . . what I would like would be a "clone" of
>>>> the present install, so that I wouldn't have to remember the boot params
>>>> and run a fresh install . . . but, would like to make a clone of the
>>>> Lubuntu side of the HD on an ext HD, then when I would need to install a
>>>> new HD I could boot from the clone and move the install back into a
>>>> partition of the new HD . . . .  Not sure if that would work as easily as
>>>> it does from CCC, and/or whether the GRUB data would carry over, but, it
>>>> might be a time saver if it can be done via some package????
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> >
>>>> > F
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