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| From | Jack Strangio <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes? |
| Date | 2015-01-04 01:36 +0000 |
| Organization | North Star Horizon Builders Club |
| Message-ID | <nHMpsF.oxz@yahoo.com> (permalink) |
| References | <mpro.nhmgax01ltwud02og@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid> |
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> writes:
> How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes?
>
> What I mean is, if they install patches or some package whose configuration
> screws things up, and they then can't boot - what then?
I have two distros installed at all times. If one distro gets mangled in any
way I just reboot using the 'backup' distro.
When I partition a disk, I set aside two partitions for two distro root
systems. Then there is a common swap, a common /home and a common /u
(long-term storage) partition. Generally, the two distros are the current
and the previous distro versions, so I might be running Mint 16 on my
'non-current' partition and Mint 17 on my 'current' partition.
When Mint 18 gets released, it will be installed over the Mint 16
partition. That then becomes the 'current' distro and Mint 17 will then
become my 'non-current' or 'backup' system.
I do a daily backup overnight which saves /etc, crontabs, software
packages list, mysql databases, /usr/local, user /home(s), and local
git and calibre data.
I keep handy a grub rescue disk in case the grub boot manager gets
clobbered somehow.
Jack
--
"I'm a home-loving girl. And that's where I wish I was."
"At home ..."
"Loving."
- Laugh-In, 1968
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Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-01-05 14:25 +0000
Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-01-05 16:18 +0100
Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-01-05 09:35 -0600
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Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-05 19:20 +0000
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