<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>And I think this is the winner. I have the .deb files that I built for the headers & kernel image. I put those on a memory stick. I have the CD to reinstall mythbuntu. True, having to build the entire diseq tree each time and do all the connections is annoying (plus winding up with a weird collection of tuners in mythweb), but in an hour I should be up and running again now. </span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Thanks for all the suggestions. I might still investigate clonezilla for other backup related needs.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Amy<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"
size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> jedi <jedi@mishnet.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Amy Overmyer <aovermy@yahoo.com>; Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:50 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] Backup software<br> </font> </div> <br>
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 04:35:45PM -0700, Amy Overmyer wrote:<br>> >> Disks are so large these days that the only practical way of backing them up is to other disks. I don't ??>>understand reusing small disks, as a 2TB costs only about a hundred now.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> But it's for a slave backend that only needs enough space for its own software. <br><br> Something like this I would not "back up". I would make sure I have the<br>means to rebuild it. That would include the original install media and any <br>packages you might have installed.<br><br> I would only back up the stuff that's not part of the OS install. That's <br>pretty small and would likely fit on the master backend with no trouble.<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>