Subj : Slimmed down Debian To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Sep 29 2019 07:06:00 Hi Ky! > KM> Speaking of automated, anyone else using Timeshift? KM> Basically System Restore for Linux. > Nope: here just the pre-installed Deja Dup. ...Deja Dup is more for KM> I don't know Deja Dup... KM> https://www.linux.com/tutorials/total-system-backup-and-recall-dej KM> a-dup/ KM> That looks pretty good too, tho maybe more limited. It's KM> in our repository, so maybe I'll install it and see how it goes. One of the things about Deja Dup is the recovery/restore portion is via Terminal, or at least time I looked I didn't see anything in GUI. Then it pulls up a GUI ut that almost seems like it doesn't serve any purpose except to click to go on to the next step: click
(or whatever the button is labeled) and appears nothing is happening. So be patient as it appears nothing is happening yet your recovery is occurring. KM> We also have KBackup: KM> https://kde.org/applications/utilities/org.kde.kbackup KM> It's much more easily granular. KM> Nice thing about the KApps, they all look and behave alike, and KM> they all respect your desktop config. I don't think I've had any issues with configurations being changed, or are you meaning something different than what I'm thinking? > files; Timeshift for the operating system as you said 'system > restore'. I haven't had a problem with system updates other than the KM> Well, either whole system or selected parts thereof, but since KM> GRUB is one of the things that can go wrong... and since I hate KM> having to reconfigure a new install... whole system. Also, it's KM> automated. Automated is (generally) good! As for restoring the OS, could also be a good idea to have a backup to GRUB's ability to go back one or two -- as you said, GRUB can go bad too. > time a years or so ago something didn't work properly with the nVidia > utility and so just got into GRUB and selected the previous/working > version until the new update came out correcting whatever wasn't > compatible . KM> Yeah, that's good if the system will start... if you can't get as KM> far as GRUB, like when Mint committed seppuku on me... not so KM> much. Here no problem with the system starting, just a problem with getting it going. As I recall an incompatibility with an nVidia utility and the system just kept rebooting. ... to get to GRUB to select the earlier version. At least GRUB wasn't screwed up! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Unanswered questions are less dangerous than unquestioned answers. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .