Ubuntu Ubupdate

[athelind]

I have been cautioned against trying to install Ubuntu onto the 80 GB, since it's full of years and years of data that would make me cry if it went away.

I need a decent backup system. There's just no good way to BACK UP that much data.

I also need to clean off my desk; the drive-juggling will go much faster if I don't have to keep running back and forth to the kitchen table to do surgery.

Comments

[foofers.livejournal.com]

External hard drive. Fry's currently has a splendid deal going on the Seagate FreeAgent Pro 320GB. USB2, FireWire and eSATA. $99. And it's pretty.

I bought three (though one is technically a gift for someone else).

[silussa.livejournal.com]

There's also online backup systems. Heard an add on, of all things, the Rush Limbaugh show for one...$49.95 for a year, unlimited number of files.

Don't recall the name, or I'd have looked it up by now; I've been stung by the crash and no backup devil myself.

[shdragon.livejournal.com]

If you have the shiny new 320GB already, you could just put the test install on that. If it goes well, huzzah.. If it goes well, but wipes everything, oh well. If the test goes well and you want to keep it, you can make a data partition, put in the 80, copy everything, wipe the 80, then install on the 80.