On 10/04/2021 16:37, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote:
On Saturday, 10 April 2021 12:54:01 BST Mark Preston via GLLUG wrote:
Regards,
Mark Preston
That looks like hard work!
I am currently trying to work out how I am going to upgrade several old boxes
to Debian 11 "Bullseye" which it seems should be released soon, most have
space reserved, plus a few using derivatives of Debian which should follow
soon afterwards.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply above.
It wasn't so much hard work as a slow process. Most of the hard work was
done by the processor. Even with fairly modern machines and programs it
took about a week for the 6 million plus files which made up the over
1Tb of this particular "home" to be "rescued". Then it was like looking
for a few needles in a giant haystack. Scalpel then took a few more
hours to isolate the LibreOffice calc files I particularly wanted. The
extra cautious approach I took did eventually pay off in that no files
were lost. However, the upgrade to Linux Mint 20 didn't turn out as well
as I hoped, so now I'm trying Mx Linux (19.3) which so far seems much
more satisfactory.
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Regards,
Mark
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