On Thu, 2025-08-21 at 20:48 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I had one desktop only. A semi-annual OS upgrade pretty much destroyed > the OS. Subsequent attempts to re-install, then install, the OS wiped > out the rest of the hard drive. A local friend gave me a used desktop > (windows-10) to use until I can get a new desktop. It was that > windows-10 desktop that (probably) slaughtered the final back-up from > the Fedora desktop. Once I get that new desktop, it will be the only > one I have.
For people that want to upgrade over the top and keep existing data (preferring to have to re-import from a backup), I think the simplest solution is a two drive PC. One drive is your OS and programs, the other drive is your data. It's easier not to stomp over your data during a new operating system install (or upgrade over the top) if it's on another completely drive. Easier than trying to avoid messing up data in partitions or folders on the same drive. Even easier, still, if you unplug the data drive during the critical process of OS installation. I started out doing things that way. My OS drive was smaller and a different brand than the data drive, making it very easier to correctly pick the right drive during an install. >> [using a NAS] > I do not understand how what you're suggesting would help. > > Bottom line, I need the back-ups to be to removable media. Well, I didn't have that crucial bit of information. But a networked system is unpluggable, and therefore technically removable. Likewise, drives can be swapped in and out of some NASs. And depending on your backup technique, and size of drive(s) in a NAS, it's quite feasible for a NAS to have Monday's backup on it, separate from Tuesdays, separate from Wednesday's, etc. Another useful aspect of network storage, is that it can be always connected, and backups can be automated, and it can be located in a different room or building. Giving mitigation from forgetting to do backups, being temporarily unavailable to do them, thieves ransacking an obvious room full of goodies, fires, etc. A NAS can be a standalone box of harddrives, or it can a standard PC that you just use as a fileserver somewhere. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
