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I also have no recent backup, because the rebooting was already too annoying.
Hindsight sure, but that really is no valid reason: instead of completely ignoring given options you could at least have created a tar ball or rsync on removable disk of say /home, /etc and your installed packages list. That's not "settling for less" but taking minimal precautions using the tools at hand, which would have gotten you the majority of things you'd want to save anyway.
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Originally Posted by BeniBela2
So now the only option is to remount it from during normal use.
No, the only course of action is to simplify things and solve compounded problems in the right order: first fix laptop (attach USB keyboard, have it cleaned, whatever else) then reconsider the options already given (I'd use rsync to removable disk).
. This will create a tarball of your files in an incremental way.
It will even create a file of currently installed packages, which gets backed up.
It runs automatically on a daily basis - may need a daily reboot to kick it off - not sure.
It won't give a perfectly cloned version of your data - but it will have the basic data.
You won't have to do extra reboots from a CD.
Example:-
Step 1 - Get your keyboard replaced with a new one as your laptop won't work until you do.
Sometimes, after a few reboots, it reads no input and boots. I cannot chose a setting, but the count down does not abort, and the default boots.
I am thinking about trying to change the GRUB shortcuts
--edit: ha! found a way! If I press the F and G keys simultanously it writes rf4vbg5 which should trigger a boot, should it not --
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Originally Posted by JeremyBoden
Step 2 - Use a USB key to boot up for backup - it will be faster than CD.
I am not sure I have a key.
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Originally Posted by unSpawn
Hindsight sure, but that really is no valid reason: instead of completely ignoring given options you could at least have created a tar ball or rsync on removable disk of say /home, /etc and your installed packages list. That's not "settling for less" but taking minimal precautions using the tools at hand, which would have gotten you the majority of things you'd want to save anyway.
I have some files.
Just not everything
I need to make a backup of everything
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Originally Posted by unSpawn
first fix laptop (attach USB keyboard, have it cleaned, whatever else)
I have an USB keyboard, or I could not have made this post.
But it is not recognized during boot
I am hoping it will just dry on its own in a few days
Have you tried changing your fstab to mount / read-only?
I did not try that.
I would like to avoid a reboot.
Although now something strange has happened to me.
Yesterday I copied some files to the backup drive and forgot to turn it off. This morning the computer was surprisingly out of date and I could not find recent files.
It had booted from the backup drive to a state of the last year backup. Weird. I did not think it would take priority
So the original drive was unmounted, and I could copy everything to a unused partition of the backup drive (it is much larger). Now I have a recent backup. yeah.
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