Custom Partition Fedora 18

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 02/18/2013 08:15 AM, jonc wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 03:34 AM, Tim wrote:
>> On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 18:05 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>>> Am going to look into this....as I want to "build" a server at home,
>>> and see what I can do with it.....maybe some form of central
>>> information repository?......I'll think of something!
>> Having a central server is very useful.  You can store *your* files on
>> it, your mail on it, etc, instead of on the computer that you use, and
>> they'll always be there.  Then, you can try out different distros and
>> software on a client computer, without losing any of your personal
>> stuff.
>>
>
> Useful, also, for backups, especially a backup of a separate home 
> partition if you do change distributions often.  You can easily set up 
> a separate home partition and include it, unscathed, in any new setup, 
> but having that backup is a very good thing.

Well I've learned my lesson when it comes to backups. (Lost an entire 2 
year's worth of data, pictures, movies, files, folders, and music!) I 
was using Windows 2000 at the time, and was constantly under pressure 
from my current job at the time, which left me in a tizzy on a daily 
basis! I had the PC up and running at home, and everything seemed to be 
working, (I mean what could POSSIBLY go wrong!?...right? It was Windows 
2000 we're talking about..the "latest and greatest"...RIGHT?..LoL!) 
Needless to say I had come home thinking I was going to be able to 
download some files from work, only to find my machine in a "Blue 
Screen" state, and it never recovered after that, I even went so far as 
to  try to access the files taking the HD out and putting it in a 
different machine, but whatever happened? it completely fried my 
drive.....from THAT day forward...I make an incremental backup at the 
end of EVERY week! And then I duplicate THAT to an external USB storage 
drive, which then gets placed in a Folder on my Linux Mint 
box.....(that's right!....I will NEVER lose "My Stuff" EVER again!)


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