waspentalive

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[โ€“] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I actually did this **dd if=(running system root volume) of=(local usb attached hard drive file) ** This gives me a full disk backup that would be no worse than if power got yanked. (I know laptops have batteries, for this case we are pretending to be a desktop with no UPS)

[โ€“] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Even for a home system? Not a fleet of data center servers. I am currently using rsync to backup /home/<>/ to the ssh server. I tend to make a lot of changes to the base Debian/KDE install.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.ml to c/debian@lemmy.ml
 

What is the best way to back up as much as possible of Debian 12 on my laptop to a server that has SSH available? I am currently backing up my users /home/ folder, but I would like to be able to nuke and restore the system from a backup.

I have ventoy on an external drive if that helps any.

P.S. I would like to be able to do incremental backups too.