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Howto: Install Klikit to a recoverable 3 partition install Introduction
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This howto shows how to install Klikit to 3 partitions, one for the "/" root folder where your system files are stored, one for the "/home" home folder where your settings and personal files, and email are kept, one called storage or whatever you want to call it, to store permanent files you wish to keep. The reason for this advanced install is to make the install easy to backup and recover, in case of some problem which makes your system unstable, unbootable or in case of hard drive failure. Having your root and home directories on two different partitions means you could even do a reinstall of the original without wiping out all the data on your home partition. You would still have to reinstall programs, reset some settings and the like. Most of your settings though are stored in the home directory though and would still work. All of your email and browser stuff should also still be intact, with all their settings. So this is a good start to save you a lot of time and energy if for some reason you need to reinstall. You can also store a lot of your permanent data to the storage partition as well, in which case even if you had to rewrite the root and home directories all of that stuff would still be intact. The special added feature to this install method though is what you can do with it if you also use some kind of backup software. It also allows you to save your virtual machines if you are running any. I do regular backups with remastersys backup. It allows you save your entire install to an iso file which can be written to a DVD and used as a live disc, or for doing a reinstall or an install to another computer. Remastersys saves all of your installed programs and all of your settings and files. The only drawback is that because it has to compress all of your files into an iso small enough to fit on a DVD and they are limited to 4 gigabytes for the iso. In spite of the compression, remastersys can only fit so much into the iso. My /home folder usually has a lot of stored files which just would not fit. It has a huge folder full of mp3’s, stored files, virtual drives for Virtual Box and many other permanent files that just can’t fit. So I create a big storage partition just for storing all of that stuff. This means that my system will easily fit onto about a 1.4 gigabyte DVD which remastersys can create in just a few minutes. I set up remastersys to keep its working directory on the storage partition. That way when I use remastersys backup the iso file it writes is stored to the storage drive and it just overwrites the last backup iso with an updated copy every time I do a backup. You can do them as regularly as you feel is necessary. I do one from everyday to once a week depending on what new stuff I put on my system that I want to make sure is backed up. It only takes about 10 minutes for remastersys to run. Just in case of a hard drive failure I also backup the backup iso to another USB drive weekly. My storage partition is also backed up regularly to the USB drive. I will show you how to do the advanced install and then how to backup with remastersys. I will also show you how you can reinstall from the remastersys backup disc without losing any data, files, settings or anything, as long as it was up to date. Even in the case of a hard drive failure. ...cosbear
Howto: Install Klikit to a recoverable 3 partition install Set up Remastersys to backup your system to your Storage Partition Text instructions for printing or those with dialup
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