On 30 May 2013 16:01, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote:
Deja-dup saved my bacon. It was however on a separate partition *not* a
separate disk! What if the partition resize failed grotesquely enough to
bork the disk?
Rarely have I seen software issues/blunders cause irrecoverable data
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 16:14 +0100, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
Rarely have I seen software issues/blunders cause irrecoverable data
loss.
Like I said in original post..
I *did* get it all back - it *was* a chance for a clean install dross
clear out therefore [with a vast overall improvement]
On 31 May 2013 16:14, Grant Phillips-Sewell
dcg...@phillips-sewell.co.uk wrote:
then there are tools out there
[citation needed]
which can scan each
block/sector of your drive to find the remnants of previous partition
structures, optionally re-write your partition table back to what it
On 31 May 2013 17:47, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 May 2013 16:14, Grant Phillips-Sewell
dcg...@phillips-sewell.co.uk wrote:
then there are tools out there
[citation needed]
which can scan each
block/sector of your drive to find the remnants of previous partition
Last week a partition resize failed completely borked my Ubuntu
partition.
I had various backups in various places, none recent enough to bring me
back to a position of strength. Then I remembered Deja-dup had run
automatically only 2 days previously. Combined with my documents [admin
stuff
On 30 May 2013 16:01, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote:
My next step - to buy that external disk I kept putting off buying!! ;)
Agreed - do it now. :)
I especially like bus-powered 2.5 drives. No need for any extra crap,
just plug in and backup (my flavour is rsync to a ZFS tank). You
On 30/05/13 16:01, SuperEngineer wrote:
Last week a partition resize failed completely borked my Ubuntu
partition.
I had various backups in various places, none recent enough to bring me
back to a position of strength. Then I remembered Deja-dup had run
automatically only 2 days
On 30/05/13 16:01, SuperEngineer wrote:
[...]
Deja-dup now runs weekly backs up to the other disk in pooter that was
used for [in retrospect] non-essential stuff.
Whilst preaching to many of the converted here - there may be a few who
could take this as a reminder of rule 1 rule 2. Rule 1 =
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 20:50 +0100, alan c wrote:
dejadup integrates well with UbuntuOne (use a password to ensure it is
sent encrypted).
Downside is possible slow upload ...
Alan, bintheredunit - gave up a while back... too slow for whole home
directory borks with a special character at
