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I'm setting the NAS up as a network backup drive.

SOLVED.
I got the latest from their website.
Duh!

I went to the yt-dlp site and downloaded the latest AS PER INSTRUCTIONS. It worked.

I went to the yt-dlp site and downloaded the latest AS PER INSTRUCTIONS. iT WORKED.

Hiyall,
How does one update yt-dlp?

The work-around is putting Timeshift in an iSCSI partition.
Works great!

Hiyall,
Setting up backups on external NAS.
Timeshift doesn't like me using NFS.
Is there a work-around or should I use a different system?

Hiyall,
Anyone got an opinion on Librewolf?

Hiyall, I just had another backup nightmare. Certainly of my own doing. Gparted is definitely the far superior partitioning tool however it falls down in one very significant aspect; handing ownership from root to owner. I have tried on many occasions to use 'sudo chown -R peter:peter ./*' without s...

thank you

Hi fredbear,
have you installed Extension pack and Guest Additions?

Jeannie,
You're answering questions I haven't asked.
Pure and simple, is there an adaptor to turns 1 and 2 into USB ports?

and the usbs?

All of the answers are interesting but none explain the problem; either the send or the receive hard drive is USB2. Suck it up!

liability,
I know that option and I have several USB hubs. I was looking for a 'neat' answer.

Hiyall,
I'm running out of USB slots! Attached is a diagram of my unit. Can items 1 and 2 be converted into USB?

Learning how to partition a hard drive may be one of the most important and fundamental thing you could ever learn. Download Gparted from Menu>Software Manager.

USBs by their very nature, break easily. For a backup to be reliable you need at least a portable hard drive but preferably a large HDD.

Hi Happywarrior, I think you have incorrect info/assumptions. You can't backup with a USB stick, you need a substantial hard drive. For instance, I use a 3Tb HDD sitting in a USB3.0 dock. You then need Gparted to partition the HDD for UEFI, /root, and /home. You also need to use ext4 if it's Mint yo...

Checked further. Iomega cloud software no longer exists so either I can build something else into the box/attach something to it or I have an expensive boat anchor.