> On 14 Aug 2022, at 22:08, Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1...@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.
Have a look at duplicity, it works well. I use it to back from to my file server. You can use it to run frequently, I run it every hour. That provides Mac like time machine features. Barry > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
