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Cake day: September 14th, 2023

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  • This is why it’s important to make backups. If, by any chance you printed your disk configuration before the gpt operation, you want to copy it into a notepad NOW. You can use that to try and recreate your original partition layout after converting the disk back to MBR. Chances are nothing is wiped, except for your disk configuration. No guarantees, though…

    Whatever you do, don’t format anything, as that WILL overwrite your data.









  • What kind of backup do you want to take? A config backup or a live system backup?

    Live system backups are difficult, as you typically have locked files and files being written to. You would need agents which allow your apps to be suspended is a consistent state. Besides that you have mounted pseudo file systems which you don’t need to backup like /tmp, /sys, /proc. You could use file system snapshots, but not all fs support this. And knowing the default fs used on rpi, you’re out of luck.

    Config backup on the other hand can be done rather easily. You list the dirs and files and you’re off. I use restic, which is a very flexible backup tool leveraging compression, snapshots and encryption. It even allows you to use cloud storage natively to store your backups.






  • The integration part is because we would like for anyone to fit in, and not be confined to your ‘hood’

    We don’t mind you not speaking the language, but English is usually not a first language, sometimes not even a second, and sometimes omitted. Especially in rural areas.

    So yeah, it’s nice if we can actually have a conversation about the local soccer team, or town buffoon who thinks the government is conspiring about pricing covid shots too high…





  • Obviously I do not know Australia that well, but what I gather from Mad Max movies is that you have a lot of desert and silver painted teeth… Just kidding. 😉 Europe is indeed more densely populated than, and we have ‘decent’ infrastructure for travelling. When I started my EV journey 6 years ago, the only superchargers were owned by Tesla, and the fastest non-Tesla chargers would need 4-8 hours to fill my 260kms range car. Which was appalling. Over the past 6 years, I’ve seen enormous improvements, because we want to get rid of ICE cars by 2035.

    Today there are superchargers every 50-100kms on highways.

    Unfortunately, these (super)chargers do not get as much coverage in ads like gasoline/diesel get, and it took me some time to understand and find my way in chargerland. I’ve learned you need to actively search for the charging infrastructure if you need it.

    So I would be interested to see what is happening down under….