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| 1425636 | 2016-09-23 02:27:00 | Wouldnt any CD Bootable imaging program work just fine ? Might be any easier option if you dont mind booting from CD to do an image Use a imaging boot CD something you're familar with ? Yep, but most Linux users use clonezilla, apparently. I don't bother with imaging Linux, only Windows, so can't comment further. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1425637 | 2016-09-23 03:11:00 | I wondered that too but then thought maybe not, as Linux has a completely different file system, as I found out a couple of weeks ago when trying to install Mint on a blank disk in NTFS format. :rolleyes: If the imaging software is good enough it will create an image no matter what format. Take HP computers, they use a couple of different formats in their partitions on the same PC-- no problems at all. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1425638 | 2016-09-23 05:01:00 | Just be sure to image all the partitions and you should be ok. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1425639 | 2016-09-23 20:06:00 | Well in the absence of a multitude of suggestions as to backing up Mint, I thought Wainui’s link looked promising so I gave it a go. Well it did say it was only for Ubuntu based systems but Mint doesn’t appear to be one of them. Pity, because I thought the Roll back, Restore Point feature looked quite promising. Anyway, here is a screen-shot of my failure in the highly likely event of me stuffing up. :D 7478 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425640 | 2016-09-23 20:08:00 | What are you willing to sacrifice on a personal computer? For me it is time. So reinstalling the OS and configuring settings is my time lost. My data is kept in my home directory which is all synchronised with each PC/laptop. I only back up that directory I use rsync which is a termimal program. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1425641 | 2016-09-23 23:09:00 | You forgot to sudo apt-get update in the middle of the other commands, so apt is not aware of the changes to repositories you made by adding the ppa. So: open terminal/ type in: sudo apt-get update then press enter give it your password and enter again. after the terminal prompt reappears you can continue with the install command that failed. Systemback installed successfully here just now. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1425642 | 2016-09-24 00:21:00 | Dahhhhh, thanks Dave, that fixed it and thanks Wainui if it works it could be a handy App. :thumbs: The reason I preferred this over clone is for Clone to be useful it really needs to be on another disk, whereas hopefully if I stuff up again, as I’m sure I will, it will just require a roll back. Well that’s the theory, so now I’ll install the Updates in waiting and hope if one screws the system I can recover without a lot of trouble. Oh, for those interested, setting the restore point took 15mins, but that could be because it’s the first. Time will tell. 7479 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425643 | 2016-09-24 02:04:00 | What are you willing to sacrifice on a personal computer? For me it is time. So reinstalling the OS and configuring settings is my time lost. My data is kept in my home directory which is all synchronised with each PC/laptop. I only back up that directory I use rsync which is a termimal program. And that is why the masses won't change. I hate command line, if linux could do everything by Gui I would probably switch most of our computers over until then it ain't happening |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1425644 | 2016-09-24 03:12:00 | Can you make Batch Files for Linux? | B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425645 | 2016-09-24 04:48:00 | Can you make Batch Files for Linux? Certainly. Bash script would be the closest equivalent, but nowhere near as limited as a batch file. Also perl, python and many other scripting languages if you prefer. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
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