setting up/converting windows 11-> ubuntu

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 6 Jul 2025 10:29:53 -0400   bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> hey karl/list.
> 
> Thanks for the remarks.  Much appreciated.
> 
> The 30k view is to backup everything every 2-3 days, using 2 1TB backup
> drives to bounce/rotate between. This would give me a max of a 3-4 day gap
> of lost information, assuming the backup drives dont fail.
> 
> So there would need to be an auto process for all of the backup processes
> as well as periodic testing of backups.

There are two automated options available: AMANDA and Bacula.  Versions of 
both are in the Ubuntu / Debian software repository.+

> 
> All off this would be local. This would be for my personal use.
> 
> I think what I'm really in need of is a short term/initial sysadmin to
> setup and test the process.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2025, 8:53 AM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 07:54 -0400, bruce wrote:
> > > But I'm also looking for the steps/sequence/process to handle setting
> > > up the process for running ubuntu on windows, as well as the whole
> > > backup/restore process.
> >
> > There are so, so many possibilities, and many of them depend entirely
> > on what specifically and exactly you want to achieve.
> >
> > What, specifically, needs backing up?
> >
> > Do you need an operating system backup, or just your own data?
> >
> > What about OS configurations?
> >
> > Applications?
> >
> > Application configurations?
> >
> > Is time to recovery important?
> >
> > How long is too long?
> >
> > Is there a large amount to be backed up, or a small amount?
> >
> > How secure do you want the backups to be - against loss, against
> > compromise, against loss of integrity?
> >
> > How often do the backups need to be taken - can you afford to lose a
> > minute of data? A day? An hour? A week? A month?
> >
> > How many generations back do you want to be able to recover - just from
> > the most recent, or do you need to be able to "go back in time"?
> >
> > At what resolution?
> >
> > Do you trust yourself to take these backups manually, or will you be
> > looking to automate them?
> >
> > What off-site options do you have available to you?
> >
> > Some answers feed into others - large amounts of data are incompatible
> > with cloud storage if you have low bandwidth, for example.
> >
> > And finally - how much are you prepared to spend?
> >
> > So there is is no quick-n-simple road to a good backup, but a good
> > backup system CAN be simple and it CAN be cheap; it depends on what you
> > need.
> >
> > I wrote this a while ago, you may find it helpful:
> >
> > https://biplane.com.au/blog/?p59
> >
> > The summary, though, is that backups should be:
> > - comprehensive
> > - versioned
> > - frequent (enough)
> > - out-of-band
> > - off-site (at least one copy)
> > - automated
> >
> > Encrypting your backups is not suggested in the article, but I'm
> > suggesting it now.
> >
> > You can opt not to have some or any of those things, but each one you
> > don't have opens you up to a particular kind of risk.
> >
> > Regards, K.
> >
> > PS: You need to test your backups regularly by restoring from them. A
> > backup that you have not tested is what we call a "Schroedinger's
> > Backup":-) You have a backup, but at the same time, you don't have one.
> > You don't know until you look...
> >
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> >
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