Thread: A Heads Up and a Poll ; backing up your files

Do you back up your files ? I never have and didn't worry about it until it was too late. So the moral of the story is back up your files or you may lose your precious info. The rest of the post is a meandering description of how I know. Think of "House Of The Rising Sun" if you read the rest of it. As in,"Mothers tell your children, not to do what I have done."

I figured it would be interesting to run this as a poll. I had a bug get into my email a few weeks ago. I would receive a new email and when I opened it the text box would show an email I received from a different individual in 2006. Very weird. So whether this was a virus or a corrupted file in my mail I'll never know.

I have two towers with linux operating systems on both. So the one that was corrupted was my main wheel and had years of photos and other stuff that I wouldn't want to lose. The other tower, that I used to use at work, was my spare tire, figuratively speaking. I got in touch with a systems admin friend and we tried to figure the bug out to no avail.

I hadn't backed anything up but my drive was partitioned in such a way that I could reinstall linux and keep my home directory with all of the photos and whatever else it contained. So I was running linux mint 6 and it is up to 11. I went with 10 because I like the KDE interface better than Gnome.

I don't know where I messed up but on the reboot I had lost my home directory. All of the years of photos were history. I was running mint 7 on the spare tower so I installed ubuntu 11 on that with the gnome that I'm not crazy about. Actually I'm getting to like it now. I didn't lose the home directory on that install but there wasn't much on it anyway. So I have the mint 10 with the KDE on one and the ubuntu 11 with the Gnome on the other. Either system is highly recommended AFAIC. Whatever you have don't forget to back up those files.