Please Please Please BACKUP

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As you have seen there is a MAJOR update for ROME. And while I realize I’ve been mostly (ok almost totally) AWOL on the testing, helping here in the forum, etc.

To (hopefully) save yourself some headaches if there is a problem Please Please Please BACKUP first.

Backup your data and backup your system. If you’re using btrfs make snapshots (your data is in a subvolume, right?).

Using a (FOSS) tool like Foxclone to make a disk image is the easiest and best way to do that - especially for an update of this size.

As always, the (paid) tool that (I’ve found) works best for this is from Terabyte

Hopefully I’ll be back this soon (been a challenging summer…)

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For those wanting to use snapshots, there are existing tutorials for Timeshift (my preference) and Snapper.

Even if you don’t use BTRFS you can do snapshots with Timeshift. They take a bit longer and more space but still do the job.

I have used snapshots on OM to roll back failed updates (not that this update should fail, it has been thoroughly tested, but stuff happens). It’s definitely a good option on an update this big that touches this many things.