On 30/12/2021 23:13, Josip Deanovic wrote:
On 2021-12-30 12:59, Earl Harper wrote:
Backup Windows 10 and selective restore after changing to Linux Mint....
Hello,
I want to backup my Windows 10 computer before I erase it and set up
Linux
Mint on it.
Then I would like to be able to selectively restore files from the
windows
10 backup to the new linux mint system.
I know that I could just copy some file over but, knowing my luck, I
would
miss something important.
Will any of these programs allow me to do this?
I know that I would need a copy for windows to do the backup and a
copy for
linux to restore any files. My fear is can the windows and linux programs
open the data for the other?
Hi Earl
If migration from Windows to Linux is the only reason for the backup
you plan to perform then I would say that Bacula is huge overkill
in this case. Especially if you don't have previous experience with
Bacula.
Linux has support for NTFS and FAT access (read/write) but to access
files on Linux file systems from Windows you would need to install
tools and drivers which would bring support for a specific Linux file
systems on Windows OS.
Also, when copying files between NTFS or FAT file systems to Linux
file systems, you will not get the exact mapping of the permissions
and you might lose some other file system specific metadata.
As Josip has stated, Bacula is massive overkill for what you are doing,
and I suspect you may not really know what you are trying to do...
Linux is a different Operating System to Windows, the only files that
can be shared between the two are (some) data files, and most of those
will be somewhere under your C:\users\$ME directory.
You would be better served getting a large enough external USB disk and
just replicating your Windows system onto that, using one of the many
tools available for that task.
Or better still, and infinitely quicker, get a brand new drive, and an
external case, pull the existing drive out and put it in the case, then
put the new drive into the system and install Linux on that. That way
if you change your mind you can just swap things back.
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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