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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What is your linux backup strategy? (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Can you please share your backup strategies for linux? I'm curious to know what tools you use and why?How do you automate/schedule backups? Which files/folders you back up? What is your prefered hardware/cloud storage and how do you manage storage space?

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[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

Timeshift for configs to a locally attached drive. Home partition to cloud with rsync

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Pendrive for the important stuff, paper for the really important stuff and brain for everything else.

[–] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

My backup is begging my computer to implode so I can experience the sweet relief of getting offline.

But also I use external discs and make copies of important files I can't recreate. Don't care too much about config as I am happy enough to distro hop and set things up anew.

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Dotfiles are handled by GNU Stow and git. I have this on all my devices.

Projects like in git.

Media is periodically rsynced from my server to an external drive.

Been meaning to put all my docker-composes into git as well...

I don't back up too much else.

[–] Wanderer@r.nf 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The glorious life of openSUSE, defaults to btrfs on install and everything is preconfigured with snapper out of the box. Easy life, nothing to worry about.

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