<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div id="yiv9625469966"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt;">I only have two SATA 300GB hard drives, each with it's own distro. I feel more<br clear="none">at ease with the idea of fresh LTS type installs instead of major upgrades, e.g., from 13.04 <br clear="none">to 13.10.<br clear="none">Once I can afford another hd, where I have lots of room for partitions, various distros, and<br clear="none">especially for backups, then I feel I can use one of the drives dedicated for experimentation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Right now I am trying to figure out the best regimen for what exactly, and how, to make backups.<br clear="none">I have a handful of 4GB and 32GB SanDisk
thumbdrives, and my 2 SATA hard drives, and Ubuntu One, as well as DropBox.<br><br>My main works of concern involve my music (re Ardour 3.4) and photography (re Darktable and Gimp).<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv9625469966yui_3_13_0_rc_1_7_1382284981099_12"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv9625469966yqt4642011972" id="yiv9625469966yqt24287"><div class="yiv9625469966yahoo_quoted" id="yiv9625469966yui_3_13_0_rc_1_7_1382284981099_14" style="display: block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div class="yiv9625469966yui_3_13_0_rc_1_1_1382284981099_7853" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"> <div class="yiv9625469966yui_3_13_0_rc_1_1_1382284981099_7854" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, October 20, 2013 5:03 AM, Ralf
Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv9625469966y_msg_container">On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 12:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:<br clear="none">> If nobody knows, why not simply making an upgrade and see what happens.<br clear="none">> Before upgrading there anyway is the need to make a backup, since an<br clear="none">> upgrade, especially from one version to another<br clear="none"> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ distro release
to another ;)<div class="yiv9625469966yqt0671068669" id="yiv9625469966yqtfd77037"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> , always could cause<br clear="none">> serious issues. If the upgrade should fail and/or touches Ardour, the OP<br clear="none">> could restore the old stable Ubuntu Studio from the backup.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">ubuntu-studio-users mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br clear="none">Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users</a><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div>
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