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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • In the 70s, every kid in the he area knew every other kid. The mother’s all knew each other or at least had phone numbers. Weekends and summers we would go play all day, sometimes in 1 house. The whole neighborhood looked out for all of us. If a mother needed to find a kid, just start calling the list of mothers. Regardless,when the streetlights came on, that was the signal to go home.

    No one questioned it. That’s the way it was. We would play football in the streets and move aside for cars. We would drink from the garden hose. Every kid played… There was even one kid missing a leg who used a fake limb, we let him at football with the rest of us (granted he played line), but he was one of us.

    Miss those days



  • You’re welcome. Like many, I dumpster dive for a lot of my equip. If you van getcyohr hands on almost any other machine with large enough drive, that would be good enough to test your clonezilla restore.

    On my daily driver, I use nextcloud for document/photo sync so that I immediately have 2 copies. Then a weekly backup to external storage 1 time per week of my home folder.

    Remember to test the backups every so often. Make sure you keep a copy of data offsite too(fire,theft,etc)

    And its morbid, but I left instructions for my kids on how to gain access to backups in case I’m gone so they can keep pics and bids from my stash.



  • The real problem here is that you are not trusting the backup tool you selected. You are right to be paranoid of course…I am. Testing the backups is something we all should do on a schedule.

    You don’t want to restore the entire image for fear it won’t work, and currently have no other option to test it.

    Leap of faith with your untested restore is not adviseable either.

    Ugh. Either you need to find another machine with enough space to teat the restore 1st, disconnect the drive and mount,… Don’t know how you could proceed otherwise.