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I plug in an external drive every so often and drag and drop parts of my home dir into it like it's 1997. I'm not running a data center here. The boomer method is good enough and I don't do anything important enough to warrant going all out with professional snapshot based backup solutions and stuff. And I only save personal documents, media, and custom config files. Everything else is replaceable.
yeah about the same, old coot here, I plug a USB3-SSD (encrypted with LUKS) and rsync from internal HD to this external HD. That's it.
I do exactly this but with a little shell script that just has some
rsync -avandmv -fcalls instead of dragging and dropping.