12-01-2020, 05:36 PM
Minesheep,
These are personal files (receipts, statements, spreadsheets, graphics files I like to work with and photos). So not a lot of "quantity" but the spreadsheets have data from crafts I make to sell, so they are important. I thought I was doing what I needed to do by running a backup when I had made multiple changes in things or added more photos to my library. The last time I deleted the old backups and ran a new full one. But believe me, after this experience, I will never bother with a backup again. Going forward I will just make more than one "copy" of my files/photos on the a couple of external hdds. Linux Lite is so easy to install and set up like I want, I really don't need the "system" backed up anyway.
I don't see how to tell what the sizes of the files were, but the largest photos were probably 2-3MB. A little more than half the volumes are photos, and lol I don't know how many there were. It literally was 2 years of files - since I had gotten the xps laptop. I am grateful that I have a couple of USB drives with my photos from before the laptop. This is the name of the manifest:
"duplicity-full.20200805T052212Z.manifest"
I'm just getting ready to try some different commands. It amazes me how many different ways there are to attempt to do something in Linux. It would help if I understood it all better, but I muddle through, because I refuse to use MSW.
These are personal files (receipts, statements, spreadsheets, graphics files I like to work with and photos). So not a lot of "quantity" but the spreadsheets have data from crafts I make to sell, so they are important. I thought I was doing what I needed to do by running a backup when I had made multiple changes in things or added more photos to my library. The last time I deleted the old backups and ran a new full one. But believe me, after this experience, I will never bother with a backup again. Going forward I will just make more than one "copy" of my files/photos on the a couple of external hdds. Linux Lite is so easy to install and set up like I want, I really don't need the "system" backed up anyway.
I don't see how to tell what the sizes of the files were, but the largest photos were probably 2-3MB. A little more than half the volumes are photos, and lol I don't know how many there were. It literally was 2 years of files - since I had gotten the xps laptop. I am grateful that I have a couple of USB drives with my photos from before the laptop. This is the name of the manifest:
"duplicity-full.20200805T052212Z.manifest"
I'm just getting ready to try some different commands. It amazes me how many different ways there are to attempt to do something in Linux. It would help if I understood it all better, but I muddle through, because I refuse to use MSW.