On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:56:49 -0800 Ben Koenig <[email protected]> dijo:
>Just out of curiosity, do you actually put anything in /usr that you >need to back up? Since this is ubuntu, pretty much everything in that >folder is created by installed packages, there's no real need to back >it up since everything can be reinstalled from the repository. The >benefits of backing up /usr usually don't outweigh the risks, unless >you are manually installing software or using it for other purposes. You put your finger on it. I have a dozen active PPAs for installing things, and dozens more packages that were installed by downloading the program from outside the repositories, including quite a few that had to be installed from source. >Nothing will complain about backing up /usr, however if in the future >you attempt to restore your OS using a backed up copy of those files >it could seriously break your install. You just end up using a huge >amount of disk space without any benefit or gain. Well, I just did that. I moved my Xubuntu 18.04 from my old laptop to this new one, and the process included cloning / and /home to the new drive. It booted fine after I fixed a problem that systemd caused when it revised which disk was /dev/sdb. I also had to fix a few other things, but all my programs launched without a problem. I do take to heart what you say; restoring / from a backup can easily be a problem. But I have plenty of disk space, and /usr is only about 9G. That's about 1/3 of a 4K movie. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
