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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

chrisgerhard@toot.bike ("Chris Gerhard :bt:") wrote:

I feel very smug. You know how backups you have not tested are useless? Well I bought a new SSD and before I install it in it's final location I installed it in my laptop to see if I could restore it from backup.

I can and I've learnt some things about restoring ubuntu systems.

  1. You better have a USB disk to boot from. If your only computer is toast you can't download one so make sure you already have one.

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