Best Twitter client for Ubuntu 15.10

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:32:54 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:
>On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 07:49 -0500, Donald Parsons wrote:
>> Colin,
>> The last time I did the upgrade I lost all of my gmail correspondence
>> and
>> users.
>>   
>
>I've said it before. No doubt others have said it before. No doubt I
>will say it again:-
>Hard drives are incredibly cheap, so never, ever run the risk of
>trashing a working installation even if it is out of date. Back up all
>of the files you think you might need to an external flash drive, USB
>thumb drive(s), SD card(s), whatever you like. Download the latedt
>version of your new operating system and burn to DVD or whatever your
>system needs. Put in a new hard drive and install your new OS. Run the
>updates, reinstate your users, recover your files from the backups you
>just made. Everybody is happy.
>When you get that "Oh, SHIT moment, just swap the old hard drive back
>in, recover the file(s) you missed, go back to the new hard drive.
>That's why you don't trash the old OS until you're absolutely certain
>you've recovered everything you need from it.
>Works for me :)

DVDs aren't secure backup medias. CDRAM in theory are good, but they
sometimes don't work, at least they provide not enough space and they
are much to expensive. Much likely they are hard to get. An external
USB HDD or just a case with an USB to SATA controller + an SATA drive
are cheap. The only drawback are that the all-in-one USB drives as well
as most cases with a controller, ship with a standby mode. Some provide
firmware to disable the standby mode others don't. The issue with Linux
is software that wakes up drives that go to sleep by the standby mode.
GVFS does, smartd does and several other software does, too. Either
remove this software, or take care that the HDDs don't spin down and up
every 20 to 30 minutes. The best bet anyway is to disconnect an
external backup drive after the backup is done. From a live media you
e.g. could "sudo tar --xattrs -czf" or "sudo cp -ai" all directories.
I do regular backups to external drives this way and avoid using rsync
or other methods, but this is just a matter of taste. Some might
recommend to exclude a few directories, but there's no need to do this,
since they are anyway more ore less empty after a shutdown. The next
command after the backup is done shut be "echo $?". If the output
should be "0" you could ignore all warnings, e.g. "removed leading /"
or "socket" related warnings. Just if the output of "echo $?"
shouldn't be "0" something is fishy. In addition you e.g. could run
"sudo diff -r --no-dereference" after a "sudo cp -ai" and open the
"tar.gz" archives by a simple click with your favored file manager, to
check if the backups are ok.

0,02 €,
Ralf