On 3/2/25 14:23, Anssi Saari wrote:
Eben King <e...@gmx.us> writes:
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
with the backup drive, boot, and be on my merry way. After the backup
has completed, I resume and it's right where I left off.
So you actually back up the hibernated / partition? Is that really a
sound backup strategy? Seems risky to me but if it works I guess it's
fine.
It normally works fine. I haven't had to do a full restore, but I have
restored / and /usr , and that worked without noticeable error.
