[ubuntu-us-ma] should i upgrade to jaunty?

[Jim O'Beirne]

What would we suggest for a good backup solution (software-wise?)

Jim

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Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:46 AM
To: Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team; kevin_dreimiller at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] should i upgrade to jaunty?

I strongly recommend that you invest in a backup device (external
harddrive, flash drive or just use a CD Rom) capable of storing all of
your personal data - any thing valuable that you can't download again
hopefully including some spare room to grow.  Secondly, I suggest that
you backup your data periodically.  Hard drives fail, maybe not today,
maybe not tomorrow...

My g/f's HD died on her mac book awhile back and she lost quite a bit
of valuable data.  I had already bought her an external disk for
backup, but she hadn't actually used it. :-(

Once you have a backup solution repartitioning will be a lot less scary.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, kevin dreimiller
<kevin_dreimiller at yahoo.com> wrote:
> i wish i had done a /home partition for things like this and a little more
> flexibility, but i didn't know what the hell i was doing when i put ubuntu
> on.  in retrospect i took a small leap of faith by completely wiping
vista.
> i just clicked 'yes' when it asked 'are you absolute certain that you want
> to reformat your entire drive?"
>
> im not quite confident enough to repartition at this point.  everyone says
> it's easy, but when i read the instructions on psychocats (i think that's
> the site) it sounds very daunting and at this point i have quite a bit of
> personal stuff ive collected that id hate to lose or garble up.  and i
only
> have a 250g drive - no multiple drives for redundancy or whatever....
>
> kevin
>
> Daniel Hollocher <danielhollocher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I personally have a /home, and two install partitions (ie, root). One
> for my regular install. One, because I've been running the alphas
> since intrepid, for one reason or another. (I actually don't like
> running the alphas. The bugs are annoying :) Plus, it allows me to
> run a clean install on my regular install, and have all my files
> intact.
>
> Next, I prefer to use configfile directives in grub's menu.lst instead
> of having a separate /boot partition. I don't know why Ubuntu/Debian
> doesn't use configfile directives in the first place...
>
> Having multiple partitions allows you to have multiple installs or
> reinstall without loosing your personal data. That's the basic point.
> The above explanation is very terse, just loaded with keywords. If
> you want to go that route, I can give further explanations. I think
> you just need to be prepared to repartition. Grub might be a problem,
> especially if you have multiple harddrive with windows dualbooting. I
> haven't really tamed grub yet.
>
> Dan
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:02 AM, James Gray wrote:
>> It should be possible to install the codecs from within the live CD.
>> I believe the Live CD creates a tempfs to mount the system.  Any
>> additional software you install will get saved to the tempfs and not
>> to your existing install disk.  You can then verify that you get
>> reasonable frame rates etc.
>>
>> Many people report better results backing up their files and doing a
>> fresh install rather then an upgrade.  YMMV.  In any event backup your
>> system first to be on the safe side if for no other reason then to
>> have a recent backup if your disk fails before your next backup.
>>
>> This is just the way I would approach the problem.  I am sure there
>> are plenty of other opinions out there...
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:09 PM, kevin dreimiller
>> wrote:
>>> im totally stumped on this.  i ran the live CD tonight and it seemed to
>>> worked fine, tho couldn't run video because it doesn't have the codecs.
>>> but
>>> everything else seemed good - it even detected my second monitor.
>>>
>>> my fear is that since i have an ati radeon 3100 vid card it wont work
>>> properly, namely the video.
>>>
>>> im using a toshiba satellite l305d series.  3 gigs ram, ati radeon 3100.
>>> almost no problems in intrepid except that it seems a little sluggish
>>> lately.  the live cd seemed to run faster than my intrepid install.
>>>
>>> and if i do upgrade and it doesnt work right, id like to be able to just
>>> revert back to my setup now, but i dont' know if thats even possible?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> kevin
>>>
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