Last week a partition resize failed & completely borked my Ubuntu partition.
I had various backups in various places, none recent enough to bring me back to a position of strength. Then I remembered Deja-dup had run automatically only 2 days previously. Combined with my documents [admin stuff updated daily] being on Ubuntu1. Grin & laugh time! I decided to do a clean up at the same time so reinstalled [12.04] from live disk & ran updates. I doewnloaded extra apps and utils wanted & then restored from Deja-dup to a separate folder. This allowed me to pick and choose the apps I wanted stuff restored to. My situation was strong but was one off luck. The reason for this mail is one of a "don't count on luck" theme. Deja-dup saved my bacon. It was however on a separate partition *not* a separate disk! What if the partition resize failed grotesquely enough to bork the disk? Deja-dup now runs weekly & backs up to the other disk in pooter that was used for [in retrospect] non-essential stuff. Whilst preaching to many of the converted here - there may be a few who could take this as a reminder of rule 1 & rule 2. Rule 1 = *backup*. Rule 2 = check your restore strategy!! My next step - to buy that external disk I kept putting off buying!! ;) -- Bill B. [SuperEngineer] ------------------------------ -Registered Linux User 523667- -Registered Ubuntu User 32366- -----Free as in Freedom------ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
