07-17-2020, 01:45 AM
Thank you for replies guys.
As mentioned home directory personal stuff is backed up using the dejabackup to external drive.
My intentions is to use Timeshift for system.
The issue with that is that you can only backup to a ext partition.
My external hard drive was fat, and Timeshift won't use it.
Since my op, I have just spent 14 hours resizing the external drive via gparted, and created a large partion ext4, so I could use Timeshift to external drive.
Bit of a marathon, and stress as it already had 250gb photos.
Anyways it finalised an hour ago and all is good..
So as Jerry suggests , it is my plan.
I just can not help thinking there has got to be a way of creating an exact iso image of the current disk, which can be burnt to DVD.
Then when the poop hits the proverbial fan , insert DVD sit back with a coffee and poof all done.
Regards
H
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As mentioned home directory personal stuff is backed up using the dejabackup to external drive.
My intentions is to use Timeshift for system.
The issue with that is that you can only backup to a ext partition.
My external hard drive was fat, and Timeshift won't use it.
Since my op, I have just spent 14 hours resizing the external drive via gparted, and created a large partion ext4, so I could use Timeshift to external drive.
Bit of a marathon, and stress as it already had 250gb photos.
Anyways it finalised an hour ago and all is good..
So as Jerry suggests , it is my plan.
I just can not help thinking there has got to be a way of creating an exact iso image of the current disk, which can be burnt to DVD.
Then when the poop hits the proverbial fan , insert DVD sit back with a coffee and poof all done.
Regards
H
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