mick crane wrote:
might I ask a favour for information on accepted wisdom for this stuff
?
I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and
switch
to PCs
another old buster lenovo doing email
another Buster PC I do bits of programming on.
Windows PC I play poker on and some games.
My approach to backup has been to copy files I want to keep to
external HDs
and other disks when I remember. If something goes wrong so long as I
remember what the config files do it's not such a big deal to start
again.
I suppose I should try to make it more formal
Only if you care about the data...
Tips for understood accepted wisdom appreciated, like is it better if
want
to use a windows program have this Virtualization or reboot and change
boot
order or just have it on another PC.
That would depend. Is it a bother to reboot? Do you have a spare
PC? Both of those are easier and potentially faster than
virtualizing an existing system.
And also practical method for backup
hardware as consumer hardware only seem to have room for 2 disks at
most.
So you have four or more PCs around, and don't mind having
another. Get an older machine and put two shiny new spinning
disks in it. Have the Debian installer set it up as MDADM RAID-1
-- mirrors. Use backupninja on the three Linux machines and have
them store their data on the backup machine.