Joseph Brower

So everything finally backed up.  After verifying that we had everything backed up, we booted up off of the 9.04 64bit disk and started the installation.  After the install, this booted up blazingly quick.  I can’t complain at all about ext4, but since I’ve heard stories of data being lost, we’re going to be using our new external drive to backup the software.  The install was very similar to previous editions of Ubuntu, but it did look nicer.  We told it that we wanted the proprietary nvidia drivers and it gladly downloaded and installed them for us.  We also copied our information back.  I dont’ know if all of this has to do with ext4 or not, but copying our files back took far less time than copying our files to the drive.  About half the time to be precise.  This was something that made me very happy, since we do a lot of RAW photography, it can be very cumbersome working on large files.  We’ve settled on using Back-In-TIme for backups.  It is based on TImeVault and seems to be easier to use and has a 64Bit version.  That will make our backups easily managed and easily recovered from if need be.  Anyways, all went well, as I expected since we don’t have an intel card.  I’ll cover exactly how we set up our backup in my next posting.