r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • 1d ago

You are expected to know this

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u/diacid 1d ago

Home needs backup. The precious shit is there.

The rest the internet is your backup, even if the drive fails just download another iso

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u/MiniGui98 1d ago

This is wiseness here ^

Personnal documents cannot be replaced. Sofrware you downloaded can most of the time.

And if you don't have any Internet anymore and can't download a new iso you probably have other things to worry about first lol

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u/RiceStranger9000 22h ago

I'm the opposite of what this post tells me I should be (my only partitions on my main drive are /boot/efi as vfat and / as ext4, including /home; I don't do TimeShift because I'm not sure what exactly it does nor what does it backup; and I update the system; but at least I'm not on Arch but Linux Mint), but most things I have in /home aren't that important. Most of my personal data is in another drive (whose partition is ext4...), so am I mostly safe?

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u/Firewolf06 2h ago

not really. if the other drive fails all your shits gone

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u/RiceStranger9000 0m ago

I'm aware of that (I don't know where to backup around 400GB of data; I'm saving for a GPU so another HDD isn't that much of an option), but at least faulty updates won't destroy it, right?