10-18-2014, 01:22 PM
I'm about to hand over a Linux 2 Sony Vaio laptop to my wife.
All she will have on it is Firefox and Thunderbird - so next to no data. However, it will have been set to run smoothly with hours of sweated brain energy from yours truly and I'd hate to have to re-invent the wheel again.
It is actually on the same network as my own PC. I back up my PC every night using both Acronis and Macrium - such is my paranoia. I suppose there might be a way of networking across to the laptop and copying that disk to my own backup HDDs.
But to re-start her machine I really need a bootable USB stick (she has no CD drive). So my feeling is that the answer might be to buy a suitably big USB stick and pop it into the laptop USB and do the occasional backup that way. My wife she will never do it - she has never seen or heard of a disk crash. But if I do it each time I do some form of mod we will be fairly well covered.
Am I on the right track? If so which software will give me a full bootable clone so that all I need to do is replace her SSD and start again.
Tony
All she will have on it is Firefox and Thunderbird - so next to no data. However, it will have been set to run smoothly with hours of sweated brain energy from yours truly and I'd hate to have to re-invent the wheel again.
It is actually on the same network as my own PC. I back up my PC every night using both Acronis and Macrium - such is my paranoia. I suppose there might be a way of networking across to the laptop and copying that disk to my own backup HDDs.
But to re-start her machine I really need a bootable USB stick (she has no CD drive). So my feeling is that the answer might be to buy a suitably big USB stick and pop it into the laptop USB and do the occasional backup that way. My wife she will never do it - she has never seen or heard of a disk crash. But if I do it each time I do some form of mod we will be fairly well covered.
Am I on the right track? If so which software will give me a full bootable clone so that all I need to do is replace her SSD and start again.
Tony