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

[James Gray]

I wrote a pair of scripts that use tar (actually python's tar & bz2
libraries) and rsync.  I am unusual in this no doubt.  I don't bother
with incremental backups.  Also, I keep the disk completely unplugged
to help protect it from power surges.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jim O'Beirne <jimobeirne at gmail.com> wrote:
> What would we suggest for a good backup solution (software-wise?)
>
> Jim
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> 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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