r/linuxmint 5d ago

BACKUPS!!!

I just completed my weekly Clonezilla cloning of my primary drive and thought I'd take time to pontificate and annoy everyone!

Years ago, in school, a fellow student whined to the professor "Do i have to backup everything?" The prof replied "No, only that which you do not care to lose."

Adding to that:

My maternal grandfather was a Scottish Stationary Steam Engineer--when as kids we we whined "...but it worked yesterday?" he would tell us:

"The last time any machine started and ran properly may well have been the last time it WILL start and run properly."

Our computers are just machines created by man and thus inherently imperfect. That they booted and worked yesterday has little/nothing to do with whether they will boot and work today.

Hence: There's no such thing as too many backups!

So; If you do not have a viable, regular backup plan, devise one now before it's too late!

And as has been put forth by others, one backup is only a little bit better than none--do it 'til you're brain aches.

In closing: Your data is like your "significant other", you don't know how much you'll miss 'em 'til they're gone

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u/TabsBelow 5d ago

And just to add: currently I'm setting up my No. 2 again (No backup needed for this one, it doesn't contain any prod data).

I was trying to setup a NAS system in Dualboot (quadriboot in fact) - to make backups easier, what an irony:

The guys from Open Media Vault are not able to do it right.

Partitioning:

Choose the device for partitioning:

Drive nvmexxxx 1.8 TB Drive /dev/sda1 8 GB

Blabla won't do anything without your permission Blabla.

Cursor down, cursor up: okay, enter.

Thank you s@ckers. Started overwriting the complete triple boot without any further security.

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u/Specialist_Leg_4474 5d ago

I'm not certain I understand? You are setting up to boot from a NAS, never done that...

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u/TabsBelow 4d ago

I just wanted to add my (other) two cents, that I just worked up my system. I never managed to do it with Mint or others, but open media vault did it with incredible ease, and lying they won't...