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Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:40:35 +0000

Please open a new thread for backup solutions (or search the boards to read the extant threads on that subject). This thread is waaaaaaaay off topic now.

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (dcolburn) — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:36:13 +0000

I don't know why it's so limited but Timeshift is not the solution to avoiding Raid1 ...

Timeshift is designed to protect only system files and settings. User files such as documents, pictures and music are excluded

I need something like Snapshot that mirrors everything.

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (Dutch_Master) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:33:19 +0000

Not used Timeshift, so can't advise you on that, but the partitioning looks OK to me.

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (dcolburn) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:24:12 +0000

Why would, then, anyone bother with the extra step of EFI?

So, back to this ...

sda1: 512MB for /boot
sda2: 48GB for /
sda3: 8GB for swap

And, rather than Raid1, just use Timeshift to mirror the main ssd to the second ssd?
sda4: remainder for /home

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (Dutch_Master) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:20:43 +0000

Not using EFI. Works fine, all my systems work w/o EFI. The installer recognizes there's no EFI partition, so Grub will use a regular MBR-style install instead.

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (dcolburn) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:29:37 +0000

I despise anything M$ as well.

What's my alternative?

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (Dutch_Master) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:44:59 +0000

EFI mandates an M$ file system (FAT). They made sure (read as: paid sh#tloads of money) only FAT was specified in the EFI standard, so until the standard changes to allow non-M$ file systems, I refuse to use EFI.

But that's just me being old school I guess

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (dcolburn) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:00:22 +0000

Dutch_Master wrote:

Yeah, that'll be good. I didn't take account of EFI, as I'm not using it myself.

Why not use EFI?

Best I ask now than later ...

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (Dutch_Master) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:37:08 +0000

Yeah, that'll be good. I didn't take account of EFI, as I'm not using it myself.

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (dcolburn) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:32:48 +0000

Note: from what I have seen you are running an efi installation. Add a ESP as first device with 128MB/FAT32.

Should the Bootable flag be "on" for the ESP?

And the recommended structure look like this ...

sda1: 128MB for /EFI System Partition
sda2: 512MB for /boot
sda3: 48GB for /
sda4: 8GB for swap
sda5: remainder for /home

... instead of this?

sda1: 512MB for /boot
sda2: 48GB for /
sda3: 8GB for swap
sda4: remainder for /home

Or ...

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (dcolburn) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:20:28 +0000

aluma wrote:

Timeshift is in the repo.

Cool.

I'm going to abort the install and begin from scratch.

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 07:50:12 +0000

Timeshift is in the repo.

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (dcolburn) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:34:17 +0000

I suppose one could implement a script that runs a backup every x-minutes or x-hours and accomplish much the same thing as Raid1?

I looked at Raid0 but could not think of a use case for it.

MX-Linux has a tool called "Snapshot" that creates an iso and it runs concurrent with continued operation of the computer, that's another option.

Hmmm ...

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:59:09 +0000

When you look on your screenshot in post #25 at SCSI1 #1, there is an EPS = efi. You have a relatively recent HW, so an efi installtion is advisable.

But: I am out with any RAID stuff. I have tried U320 SCSI RAIDs on Windows XP and 7, and damned them as unreliable, no matter if RAID0 for speed or RAID1 for some sort of backup. All my Linux boxes are running either from a single HD on very old stuff, on newer units SSD or NVME. RAID is no backup. It just complicates things (for me at least).

To delete something that has been set: select the partition by moving the cursor to it, them you can set properties or even delete that partition.

Re: [SOLVED] How to get hardware info

dummy@example.com (dcolburn) — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:57:14 +0000

This is what I'm looking at ...