Backup/restore strategy

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

Found this nice app (PPA) that helped me a lot to make a (test) clean
upgrade to 14.10 and restore most of my environment.

http://www.teejeetech.in/2014/01/introducing-aptik.html

Best Regards,

Lucio

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/07/2014 01:45 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Sounds like a plan.  Almost what I did moving fro 10.04 to 12.04. Put 12.04
> on a new HD, dual booted with 10.04 and manually got things working.  This
> sounds better.
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>
>
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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.