I hit a kernel panic after the upgrade.
The fix was easy enough for me to find and correct, out of space in the efi part due to windows dual boot stuff in there too. I removed the old kernel rebuilt and I was good.
I wo der how many people hit that and were stumped.
My 2 concerns to date are
1 just a bad file manager. Its dumbed down for people and I hate it.
2 lack of support for veracrypt volumes.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🤷
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.