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/<homedir> 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.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    The standard answer: don’t backup the system, automate its deployment instead. Backup only data.

    • waspentalive@lemmy.mlOP
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      6 months ago

      Even for a home system? Not a fleet of data center servers. I am currently using rsync to backup /home/<<user>>/ to the ssh server. I tend to make a lot of changes to the base Debian/KDE install.

      • xordos@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com
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        6 months ago

        You mentioned rsync, then take a look rsnapshot if you haven’t yet. It is based on rsync and doing incremental backup very well.