Backup/restore strategy

[David Fletcher]

On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 13:29 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Getting ready to do a dist upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04.  I did a test 
> run on my laptop and except for a couple of minor glitches it seemed to 
> go well.
> 
> When I do my desktop I want to be sure I can easily restore the system 
> to its condition before I tried the upgrade. I use BackInTime (root) for 
> my backups. I backup everything except cdrom, dev, lost&found, media, 
> mnt, proc, run, sys and tmp to an external usb drive.
> 
> If something goes wrong can I re-install 12.04, install back-in-time and 
> restore from the usb drive. Telling it to over write everything and end 
> up with 12.04 just like it was before the attempted upgrade?
> 
> Regards,  Jim
> 
> 

Buy a new hard drive. Hard drives are cheap, cheap, cheap.

Do your backup, swap to the new drive, install, restore. Then you won't
be biting your nails in fear of that OH SHIT moment because you can
always go back to the original drive and try again.

Dave


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