Tim: > > For people that want to upgrade over the top and keep existing data > > (preferring to have to re-import from a backup), I think the simplest > > solution is a two drive PC. > > > > One drive is your OS and programs, the other drive is your data. home user: > I'm planning for the new desktop (for which I want the better back-up) > to be dual boot: Fedora + one other t.b.d. Linux distro. I don't know > if that matters. If it matters, the purpose of this thread is planning: > the new desktop needs to have enough bays(?), power, space, cooling, and > so on. I am anticipating 2 SSDs. Whether I should put both distros on > the same SSD and use the other for personal data, or one distro + > personal data per SSD, I don't yet know. I'll have to include what you > said above in my considerations. It's always very useful to have more drive bays in a box (and SATA slots on the board for them). Apart from future planning (expanding your storage space, additional operating systems, spacing drive further apart for better ventilation, etc), it's very hand for recovery options to be able to simply plug in another drive to rescue things to. And on-board SATA is (generally) much faster than USB connected drives. As well as having a better power supply than a drive on a USB port. Personally, I still have more faith in harddrives than SSDs for data. So I have a SSD for an OS & programs drive, with data on a harddrive. > It did not occur to me to include in the original post that I have a > stand-alone desktop - only one, no laptops/notebooks, no cell phones, no > routers, no network/LAN/WAN/WiFi. There is one ethernet connection via > phone modem. The more data you tell people the better. I was probably mixing you up with the guy who did tech support for a number of clients who don't plan for anything going wrong. An automated back-up *thing* on the network is a simple addition to someone else's business LAN. For Macs and PCs it can be a simple case of enabling the system-provided backup system, and telling it what drive to backup and where to. > Being not an IT professional, this seems complicated to me. I'll dig > into it, but I'm not optimistic. I need simple. Unless all you do is simply drag and drop your entire homespace to an external drive to copy it, all back-up methods involve a fair amount of complexity (likewise with restorations). You get to choose how much you want. There are options for de-duplication, exclusion of certain things (such as your web-browser's cache does not need backing up, and would be next to impossible to restore; program files could be simply reinstalled rather than trying to restore them). Compression of files to save space. Scheduling. Rolling backups, where you always have something like 7 days worth, and it automatically removes the older-than 7 days backups. There are even systems which back-up as you go. So every time you save a file, a back-up is made. Avoiding the problem of file loss from a failure before a scheduled overnight backup. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
