02-20-2024, 09:35 AM
(02-19-2024, 05:57 PM)Kevin Kofler Wrote: Well, the thing is, normally the "other device" one would boot from would be a microSD card, but the OP's PinePhone's microSD reader appears to be broken.
Quite true.
Originally, before the internet and Wi-fi etal.,if was problem with a system one could stick a disk in a disk drive and boot from that. I do not seem to have that option.
I've been looking at Arch backup programs. There are like four different ones described on their website. It seems like I can backup to a different network device using SSH. Does that seem feasable? I'd have to get a wi-fi signal and still connect through SSH if the updated got borked which I'm skeptical about.
Stuff seems too complicated for me often. Isn't Arch Linux supposed to be a low frills distribution? (Linux is supposed to be simple) Yet it's still got four options for backup utilities, and I'm having trouble deciphering the tech lingo describing each one. Even if Arch is a basic low frills distribution ( and maybe it is) the tech language itself is pretty bloated.