On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:26:29 -0800 C W <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the replies, everybody. Does restoring from a backup work > reliably?
Yes, but. Yes, it can, but you have to set up your backup system correctly. Read the docs for your favorite backup program CAREFULLY. Set everything up, and make SURE that what you want backed up IS backed up. At the very least, you want your /home partition, and any other non-Ubuntu-supplied data you have. For bare-metal restores, you're going to need a copy of your master boot record(s), so that you can re-create your disk partitions, plus information on filesystems, logical volumes (if used), and so on. Once you're sure that backups are made correctly, make sure that you can use the backed-up data to restore your system. TRY IT AND MAKE CERTAIN. I've heard too many stories of outfits that have faithfully run their backup software, only to find that they couldn't restore from backups when the inevitable disaster struck. And trust me, it is inevitable. Something will go worng somewhere along the line, and you will have to restore. Do I make backups? Yes. I have a half-terabyte WD MyBook on USB that I back up to. I have had to restore from it, too. Believe me, I was glad I had it. Just another $0.02. --Dale -- "Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..." _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
