I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol.
Fortunately I kept my /home on its own partition, so this shouldn’t be too bad to get back up and running as desired.

  • Dariusmiles2123
    23·
    11 months ago

    Also, once your install is in a state you like, create a backup with CloneZilla.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
      35·
      11 months ago

      Nah. This is old school thought. Use an immutable distro if this is your concern, and keep all your files on a NAS, or something else that can replay your files. Local images of your entire filesystem isn’t needed anymore.

        • just_another_person@lemmy.world
          22·
          11 months ago

          They are two different things.

          A Clone of an OS install is not needed anymore, for a jillion reasons.

          Personal files do not relate to that.

          Perhaps you don’t understand how these are intended to work?

            • deepdive@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              Heyha ! Read about dd on makeuseof after reading your post, to see how it works.

              Restoring from an image seems exactly what I was looking for as a full backup restore.

              However this kind of 1 command backup isn’t going to work on databases (mariadb, mysql…). How should I procede with my home directory where all my containers live and most of them having running databases?

              Does it work with logical volumes? Is it possible to copy evrything except /home of the logical volumes?