Backup/restore strategy

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/14/2014 10:44 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> 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

Thanks Lucio,

I haven't had a chance to fully evaluate it yet, but it looks like you 
have given me another option.

Regards,  Jim

> 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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