Kevin Kempter-2 wrote:
I'm looking for a clean way to backup my laptop in part so before I apply any updates I have a clean backup to revert to if needed.
I have a / and /home filesystems in order to backup before I run a set of updates from yum I suspect I need to backup / separately this way I dont need to restore my 22Gig of documents in /home if an update breaks something.
I have used a script for some years which is based on rsync. I will attach the file and you can adapt it to your needs if you like it. Note that this sends the backup to a usb drive that is attached to the machine. it is relatively straightforward to adapt it to work across a LAN or also across the internet to push or pull updates to/from remote machines. http://www.nabble.com/file/p21150306/backall%257E backall%7E