On Monday, 03-03-2025 at 06:46 Chris Green wrote:
> Anssi Saari <anssi.sa...@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> 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.
>
> With modern systems booting so fast I wonder why anyone bothers with
> hibernate or sleep.
WHY? I can answer that for you. People often have several programs open, all
working together, using various folders, files, etc. To set up such a working
environment can take 5 to 15 minutes. To save time, people often just
hibernate, so when they start working again, they can just restore from
hibernate.
I will use "pause" for test environments made up of virtual machines.
However maybe like yourself, when I have finished using my primary (physical)
computer, I power off even if it means I have to set up my working environment
all over again, as I have experienced to many times I been unable to restore
from hibernate when using Windows.
Time and timing of packets are important for many of the things I do and for
the running OS, hence pause/hibernate/sleep may cause issues.
I just do not trust hibernate or sleep, even though I know many people use it
daily.
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> Chris Green
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