jbrains

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

So that's what they look like inside!

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Oh yes, I tried testing my Clonezilla restore on an older laptop, but after logging in, the keyboard and trackpad stopped working. I wondered if that was a hardware incompatibility problem, since the keyboard and trackpad worked fine at the greeter screen. 🤷

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Indeed, I have a lot of redundancy for critical documents, including a restic backup to Blackblaze and many many git repositories. What I don't have is the "Get back to work quickly when the internal drive dies" that SuperDuper gave me on my Mac. That's the missing piece I'd like.

And, as you noticed, since I was struggling with testing the Clonezilla backup, I couldn't possibly trust it. Now, at least, I have a plan.

And yes, I have onsite backups, offsite backups, and a succession plan.

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That depends on whom you ask. 🤷 And how eager are you to live in a remote community?

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The word they meant to use is "carelessly". We would also have accepted "inattentively".

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Thank you. Of the folks who have engaged me over the past few years trying to find an adequate backup system, you're the first to tell me that I'm indeed not missing anything and that this cannot be made to work the way I'm expecting. I find that comforting.

Now I have a way to move forward: to back up a 1 TB drive, I can partition a 2 TB drive in half, back up to an image on one, restore that image to the other, chroot, and check that that worked.

Wasteful, but workable.

Thank you.

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shithole country.

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

People like work. People rarely get to work at job. Result? People hate job.

Gib better job!

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Threaten the guillotines more aggressively. That's what worked previously.

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

First, thanks. And no, I haven't tried their support yet, because the situation hadn't become urgent enough yet.

I can restore an image, but that doesn't let me test, unless I restore to yet another external drive with enough space, then chroot to it, I guess. I didn't have another 1 TB drive at hand to try.

I didn't try to boot to the clone, because I read a warning about booting with two different connected drives having the same UUID. I wouldn't use my daily drive laptop to try that out in case something serious went wrong. All I found online were vague warnings and I wasn't prepared to ignore them. Also, I know software, and I could imagine some potentially serious errors due to optimistic assumptions in software about the uniqueness of drive UUIDs.

I can't disable my laptop's internal drive through BIOS and I'm not prepared to open the machine to physically disconnect the drive.

That's where I am now. It looks like the best option to test would be to backup to an image on USB drive A, then restore to USB drive B, then boot to a live installation and chroot. I mean... OK, but that's not what I hoped for from a so-called bootable backup.

Am I missing something obvious? Am I making a clearly invalid assumption?

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The Hole in the Blinds Gang (sh.itjust.works)
 

I'd love to say this was intentional, but no.

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Firmware update notification, but no update applied (sh.itjust.works)
 

I run a lemp10. I saw a notification of a firmware update, but when I applied the update---apparently successfully---the firmware version did not change. Now I see no pending firmware update.

What happened? Is this normal? Task failed successfully?!

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Den här låter ju bekant... (sh.itjust.works)
 

... men jag minns inte varifrån jag känner igen den.

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Why did I need to restart to upgrade my recovery partition? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by jbrains@sh.itjust.works to c/pop_os@lemmy.world
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I tried to upgrade my recovery partition today and it failed with "No such device"/OS error 19.

I found this discussion on Reddit in which @mmstick suggested restarting, but with no explanation as to why that was needed or would work. It worked for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/xun8vu/error_updating_recovery_partition_no_such_device/

I'd like to know why it worked and why it was needed, mostly for two reasons: to generally understand the situation better and to imagine what I might have been able to do that didn't require restarting.

Thanks.

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