On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 5:23 PM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 8/16/2022 5:24 PM, Barry Scott wrote:
On 16 Aug 2022, at 19:27, Neal Becker <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I use borg and am very happy with it. As Chris, I only backup /home,
everything else is replaceable. Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc
also.
I back /home and /etc because if I missed a config change then I need /etc
to rebuild.
As pointed out a list of installed packages is use full to backup as well.
I put that info in a file in /etc.
That's a good idea. I truthfully don't use users because no one but me
uses my machine. I know everyone says use a normal user and just sudo into
root. But all I access is in root anyway, so I just login. I too just
backup what I want at this point. Is it safe btw to erase all the invisible
files in the /home root directory? Bash scripts and all? I erase a few root
scripts that applications make and send to /~ but I am very careful.
Does anyone still use clonzilla or partimage? They are a bit aged.
I wouldn't use them for general backup purposes but clonezilla is still a
good choice when upgrading a drive. I might consider using one of them to
back up a whole system when it's a utility or micro server, but backing up
a whole desktop system seems like a waste of disk space unless you just
have money to burn.
Thanks,
Richard