Hi Tom Thank you for answering my question. This was extremely helpful. You're absolutely right.
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 1:14 PM Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > With Linux It's really pointless to make disk image backups. What you > really want is something to backup your virtual filesystem that is > attribute-aware. Traditionally that UNIX 'tar' utility has been used > for this purpose. Simply tarball your whole system excluding pseudo > filesystems like /proc, /sys, /dev, and /tmp then compress and store > the resulting .tar file. Alternatively there's Restic which is what I > use and it handles the compression, encryption, and de-duplication, and > snapshotting for you. All you have to do to restore from a > catastrophic failure is create a new filesystem, untar your files back > onto it (or use restic restore), and reinstall a bootloader. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
