21
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.ml to c/debian@lemmy.ml

What is the best way to back up as much as possible of Debian 12 on my laptop to a server that has SSH available? I am currently backing up my users /home/ folder, but I would like to be able to nuke and restore the system from a backup.

I have ventoy on an external drive if that helps any.

P.S. I would like to be able to do incremental backups too.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Installing specific things both from the repo and from elsewhere (Minecraft), Minor UI tweaks - move the panel to the left side (wide monitor), Konsole settings for colors, font(dotted zero), font size (bigger), 80x25 window. Probably others but that's all I remember for now.

[-] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

User settings are stored in the home directory, so you already have them backed up with rsync. If you didn't omit dotfiles, of course.

this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
21 points (100.0% liked)

Debian operating system

3405 readers
1 users here now

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS