On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:08:23 -0400 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. > 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. _______________________________________________ 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
