On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 5:23 PM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/16/2022 5:24 PM, Barry Scott wrote:

On 16 Aug 2022, at 19:27, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@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