Backup of MX Linux
Re: Backup of MX Linux
It's for when you either have a problem with the pc you don't know how to fix, or for cloning the OS to another pc. Clonezilla will only fix a problem with one pc. It will not install itself to another pc like snapshot will, unless of course it's all the exact same hardware, and even then, who actually owns 2 pc's that are exactly the same running the exact same OS with the exact same configuration? That's boring.
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zero privacy = zero security . All MX'd Up
UAP = up above people
Re: Backup of MX Linux
It is only worth making an image if you want to try something out on your PC. If the system then no longer works, you can make a backup image and the PC will be in its old state.
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Eadwine Rose
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Re: Backup of MX Linux
You obviously have not encountered the sudden nobootfromhellsnafu situation yet. 
Always nice to have a snapshot available that is reasonably up to date.
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Re: Backup of MX Linux
"If the system then (or ever) no longer works, you can make a backup image"
If the system no longer works the backup image should have already been created which is the entire point OF backing up in the 1st place. Has absolutely nothing to do with trying something out. Snapshots have fixed stuff my clonezilla backup would not. And the only reason I was able to make the snapshot was because the clonezilla backup was a hibernated state. I could boot but not reboot. Snaps fixed it. I love hibernating like a bear in winter.
If the system no longer works the backup image should have already been created which is the entire point OF backing up in the 1st place. Has absolutely nothing to do with trying something out. Snapshots have fixed stuff my clonezilla backup would not. And the only reason I was able to make the snapshot was because the clonezilla backup was a hibernated state. I could boot but not reboot. Snaps fixed it. I love hibernating like a bear in winter.
Sys76 LemurPro-mx-23.4, EliteMinis HM90-mx-21.3, Deskmini UM350-phoenixLite win10, Qnap 12tb nas, Protectli FW4C-opnsense(=゜ω゜)
zero privacy = zero security . All MX'd Up
UAP = up above people
zero privacy = zero security . All MX'd Up
UAP = up above people
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Nokkaelaein
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Re: Backup of MX Linux
This, 100%. Regardless of what one does on the computer, disastrous hardware failures can happen no matter what, and that's something only an up to date backup can save.Eadwine Rose wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:36 am You obviously have not encountered the sudden nobootfromhellsnafu situation yet.
Different backup strategies aside, just a random shout-out to MX Snapshot again, from here, too. It's one of the top functional details I bring up early in discussions on "why MX Linux?", heh. The ability to setup one's personal OS environment (or some project's, or what ever the need), and then snapshot it exactly in this manner, live bootable and readily installable, this conveniently and reliably directly from a running system... is just massive. I've said it before, but it's such a brilliant tool more people should know about it all over
