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I had a1T drive that has my backup on it. I used Lucky Backup
but I cannot figure out how to restore. I read the book and it is
confusing. I can't just more them over from that HD to the one
that is in the computer because they are locked. I will be
dragging all future backups as you have said. So much easier.
Thank You
On 1/19/24 12:34 AM, David Christensen
wrote:
On
1/18/24 20:08, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I answered all your questions. I believe
I am using wayland. I appreciate your help.;
YW. :-)
On 1/18/24 1:12 AM, David Christensen
wrote:
On 1/17/24 17:40, Maureen L Thomas
wrote:
Well I did a back-up, that didn't
work, but I didn't know it at the time,
The back up failed? :-(
Do you need help with data recovery?
>
Too late for that.
Ouch.
Please get started doing some kind of backups. Simple approaches
include:
1. Connect a USB drive (flash, HDD, SSD, whatever). Hopefully,
the desktop environment will display a pop-up dialog with to mount
the USB drive file system and display it in a file manager. Then
open another file manager. Drag and drop files from your hard
disk drive or solid state drive to the USB drive to back up. Drag
them the other way to restore. It helps to create folders with
year, month, day-of-month names (e.g. 20240118) on the USB drive,
so that you can back up the same file repeatedly and retain older
copies. Then put the USB drive off-site, get another USB drive,
and continue with backups. Every month or so, swap the on-site
and off-site USB drives.
2. If your computer has a CD/DVD/BD burner drive, buy a spindle
of blank discs. Look for a CD/DVD/BD burner application via your
Start menu (or whatever it is called). Burn important files to an
optical disc periodically, and as needed. Keep the burned discs
off-site.
Another useful strategy is to put your operating system on one
HDD/SSD and put your data on a second HDD/SSD. When you need to
re-install your operating system, you can shut down, disconnect
the data drive SATA cable, boot installer media, and install the
operating system. When the new operating system is working, you
shutdown, connect the data disk SATA cable, boot, and configure
the system to mount the data drive.
Did you install a graphical desktop? If
so, which one?
I installed Gnome for the desk top
Okay.
What backport package(s) did you
require?
deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports contrib
main non-free non-free-firmware
Okay.
I now have a system that works but I
cannot find any utility to fix the top bar the way I want
it. Any hints?
If you are using Xfce, right click on a blank area of any
panel and choose Panel -> Panel Preferences. This will
give you a multi-tab app that you can use to customize all the
panels.
I use Xfce and am unfamiliar with Gnome. Perhaps another reader
who uses the Gnome desktop can provide instructions for
customizing the desktop interface.
David
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