[ale] HELP! Mint machine is booting from the wrong hard drive

[JD]

>> and
>>> plugin.
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>> My backups and restores address all of this on Linux - 30 minute
>> restores.
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>> If you **need** less, then you **need** HA and clustering.
> 
> I could certainly live with 30 minutes.  Can you elaborate on the procedure and software you would use to backup and restore a personal (but important) linux machine which accounts for all these settings and parameters?  Assume the machine has totally crashed and you have to start with a new blank hdd.  Assume the machine is running Mint / Ubuntu / Debian if possible, since that's what I know.  (Well, I don't personally know Debian.)

http://blog.jdpfu.com/2009/10/24/linux-home-backup-with-rdiff-backup
is a few years old and I've changed the script I use since then. It should get
you started.