I would like to distro hop to EndeavourOS, and it has been suggested that I use rclone to copy my home folder to an external SSD. Unfortunately, I don’t have an external SSD at the moment, but I do have a phone that has plenty of free space. Is it a good idea to back up my computer files to an Android phone? My gut says it’s not a very good idea, but I’m not sure why.

  • vext01
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    2 days ago

    Is your /home on a separate partition? If so, no need to copy anything.

    If you really need to backup, I’d get a proper external disk, or failing that, backup to backblaze (or similar) and restore later.

    At a pinch, you could tar it all up and copy it to a usb stick, if you have a big enough one to hand, but it’ll be slower.

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      /home is not on a separate partition, no. Yeah an external disk will probably be better

        • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Indeed that seems to be a good idea. When I do reinstall to “distro-hop”, I’ll try to do that then. How big should the “system”/non-home partition be?

          • vext01
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            1 day ago

            How long is a piece of string?

            Really depends on what you install.

            ‘du -hs /usr /var’ to get a rough idea.