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Pre upgrade backup for Ubuntu/Linux?
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Mar 15, 20263215 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Well. I'd like to upgrade my parent's box from 8.10 (intrepid) to 10.04 LTS (lucid). Doing this from the package manager should work, but I want to get a backup of the system if things go haywire or something stops working on this laptop. (After all, I did have serious gfx-driver problems after my …
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The safest solution would be to use dd from live cd. You will need to backup MBR and Ubuntu partition. To backup MBR (first 512 bytes of the disk where GRUB is installed) run: To backup your Ubuntu partition (assuming it is /dev/sda3): Don't write t…
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