Backing up my laptop so I can move over to Ubuntu over the weekend was an epic failure. If it were possible to roll below a 1, I would have (D&D reference for you non-gamers).
Between the iMac that died a month ago, which I have the backup data on an external drive, to the data I have on the laptop itself, it's huge. I gave up on the idea of burning it all to cd's.
I have an external drive with about 200G. 60G is formatted to zfs. About 40G is BIG-DOS (I thought it was fat32). The rest is a leftover from when I had FreeBSD on it. I tried to reformat the rest at fat32, but could find no way to do that under OpenSolaris; the existing dos partition was created either under Windows, which will no longer format a disk that size in fat32 or FreeBSD. I tried to format it with a Windows laptop I had access to, and somehow made the original 40G partition (slice?) unusable.
At that point, I pretty much got frustrated and decided to work on the backup sometime this week. There really should be a good way to backup files and reload them under a different operating system.
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