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Best backup for Linux? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 year ago by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I am using duplicati and thinking of switching to Borg. What do you use and why?

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[–] Demonstrable_Legume@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can take this to the extreme too by erasing your root partition each boot: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/

Using that method you isolate all important state on the system for backup with zfs send.

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I have a full impermanence setup using tmpfs, which is really nice. I did it like on the NixOS wiki and it's been helpful for organizing my dotfiles and keeping track of all the random stuff that programs put everywhere.

I actually have all my stuff in a separate /stuff folder kinda by accident so my /home only has dotfiles and things like that.