On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:08:23 -0400
Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people
use. I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that
would be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big.
My allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar
and fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too.
I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have
installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are
stored in the root directory of the user(s) and root account.
Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to
save my rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or
dump would backup things like /sys or other system directories. I
have created dump backups but not really restored from scratch.
rsync with directory-specific excludes. All directories to be backed-up
in their own partitions, so as to avoid rpm-loaded code, which can
be restored from the web.