b-b-b-backup!
May. 29th, 2026 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavhit another cool milestone with digital independence...
got all of my (MAGI01, current laptop) files copied on the new (MAGI02) laptop! \o/
yes i'm a eva nerd lol. the steam deck is MAGI03 fwiw.
for context: MAGI01 is the linux laptop i brought in 2022 or so; and i've always backed it up monthly with my trusty ass 1TB western digital hard drive (since 2009(!)) using ubuntu's native backup system.
i've always backed up monthly (never felt the need to backup more than that) but technically i wasn't quite sure in case if a total crash that it was going to restore everything. thankfully as of today i learned that i can use that WD hard drive and simply copy 01's files over onto 02 as easily as one button click via the very same backup system. (and if the backup drive -> copies over to 02, backup drive -> 01 is fine.)
back when i had to send in MAGI01 (two or so years ago?) to fix the chassis when an old battery swelled, i realized that i was kinda out of luck if my main laptop went FUBAR. so since then, i've wanted a backup fully-useable linux so that way the whole workflow is basically identical if one of the two computers ever dies suddenly. like if 02 dies? i can switch that day back to 01 and keep drawing lol.
it sounds like a lot but the backup process itself is kinda... stupid simple? two button presses, and then i leave it alone for an hour or three (only that long if it's doing a from-scratch backup, which it sometimes does to avoid file corruption, but it takes care of that automatically).
beauty of it is that if the WD backup hard drive crashes; i have and have successfully used filezilla as a backup-to-the-backup file transfer. :3c (using it to move files to the steam deck, which is another linux). so the only way i would be truly up a creek is very literally 3 computers all goes at once (and i have one more old WD hard drive at a grandparent's house in case if there was a fire, so like, not even that).
AND NOTHING'S IN THE CLOUD, it's all offline and i have to manually approve updates, so no forced enshittification, or creepy surveillance data scanning ♥ ~ eat shit big tech lol lmao
next steps: i don't have the mental bandwidth for it right now after the work of the "full scale" backing up, but next month after the monthly (small) backup, i'll take the time to do the long-awaited update & upgrade for MAGI01 since it's hideously outdated lol. little nervous for that but like, this is why i'm taking all these careful prep steps.
got all of my (MAGI01, current laptop) files copied on the new (MAGI02) laptop! \o/
for context: MAGI01 is the linux laptop i brought in 2022 or so; and i've always backed it up monthly with my trusty ass 1TB western digital hard drive (since 2009(!)) using ubuntu's native backup system.
i've always backed up monthly (never felt the need to backup more than that) but technically i wasn't quite sure in case if a total crash that it was going to restore everything. thankfully as of today i learned that i can use that WD hard drive and simply copy 01's files over onto 02 as easily as one button click via the very same backup system. (and if the backup drive -> copies over to 02, backup drive -> 01 is fine.)
back when i had to send in MAGI01 (two or so years ago?) to fix the chassis when an old battery swelled, i realized that i was kinda out of luck if my main laptop went FUBAR. so since then, i've wanted a backup fully-useable linux so that way the whole workflow is basically identical if one of the two computers ever dies suddenly. like if 02 dies? i can switch that day back to 01 and keep drawing lol.
it sounds like a lot but the backup process itself is kinda... stupid simple? two button presses, and then i leave it alone for an hour or three (only that long if it's doing a from-scratch backup, which it sometimes does to avoid file corruption, but it takes care of that automatically).
beauty of it is that if the WD backup hard drive crashes; i have and have successfully used filezilla as a backup-to-the-backup file transfer. :3c (using it to move files to the steam deck, which is another linux). so the only way i would be truly up a creek is very literally 3 computers all goes at once (and i have one more old WD hard drive at a grandparent's house in case if there was a fire, so like, not even that).
AND NOTHING'S IN THE CLOUD, it's all offline and i have to manually approve updates, so no forced enshittification, or creepy surveillance data scanning ♥ ~ eat shit big tech lol lmao
next steps: i don't have the mental bandwidth for it right now after the work of the "full scale" backing up, but next month after the monthly (small) backup, i'll take the time to do the long-awaited update & upgrade for MAGI01 since it's hideously outdated lol. little nervous for that but like, this is why i'm taking all these careful prep steps.
