- A full backup of
/home/paul
usingbackintime
-
Choose "Something else" to enter the partitioning tool
-
Select "use the advanced partitioning tool for more control"
- note: use
primary
partitions, notlogical
- add
/dev/sda1
asext4
size2046
mountpoint/boot
- in
sda
free space, selectphysical volume for encryption
- it will create a new device `/dev/mapper/sda1_crypt - set
/dev/mapper/sda1_crypt
mountpoint to/
- in
sdb
free space selectphysical volume for encryption
- it will create a new device/dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt
- set
/dev/mapper/sda5_crypt
mountpoint to/home
- note: use
In the end it should look like this:
fmt
/dev/mapper/sda2_crypt
/dev/mapper/sda2_crypt1 swap [ ] 17985 MB
/dev/mapper/sda2_crypt2 ext4 / [x] 99998 MB
/dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt
/dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt1 ext4 /home [x]
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 ext4 /boot
/dev/sda2 unknown (cryptodisk)
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1 crypto
- on the timezone screen, wait for 30 seconds to allow the partitioner to do its thing (or error)
- Once the installer has finished, reboot
sudo apt install backintime-common
backintime-qt4
- select Yes to "restore a previous configuration?"
- navigate to the backup restore location
- select the right backintime profile
- from
Restore
selectRestore /home/paul
- ... wait a while
- make sure it finished OK
sudo bin/install-ubuntu-packages
- Reinstate crontab:
crontab < ~/crontab.txt
cd ~/dotfiles && make
- reload backintime config from
~/binfiles