[EdLUG] Separate Logical Disks

[Matthew Rankine]

A talk about borg sounds interesting.

I currently use a combination of rsync, bup (basically just git), rclone,
and B2.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 22:12 Thomas Kluyver, <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> It's possible to upgrade or reinstall the system without touching your
> home partition. But if something goes wrong, it wouldn't be hard to wipe
> that data out by accident, so it's always sensible to make a backup first.
>
> External hard drives start from about £40 at PC world - not as good as an
> offsite backup, but much better than nothing. You probably can't back up
> everything without spending some money, but the free tier of services like
> Google Drive & OneDrive offer a few GB, so if you can pick the most
> important files, you can make a free backup that way.
>
> Perhaps I can do a lightning talk on my backups at some point - I use a
> program called Borg, and pay $9 per year for the server space to store
> backups on. But this took a little bit more setup than copying files to an
> external drive.
>
> Thomas
>
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, at 21:22, Andrew Ramage wrote:
> > I have /home on a separate logical disk.  Is this safe for an upgrade ?
> > Many GB data, too much to backup ...
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