I like to keep my system files and my data backups separate. I have the /home directory in it’s own partition meaning home is not in the root directory. I use Clonezilla to backup the ./ (system) and that works very well. I use tar to backup my data in the /home directory. But there are a lot of …

Hi @easyt50 and @nevj :waving_hand: [image] Neville Jackson: It would be ideal if you could get it to do the dot files, but not the rest of /home. I guess that should be doable. I was intrigued by the task and tried to research it. So I looked at my timeshift GUI and it seems to be a matte…

When a Backup is not a Backup

General Linux Question

abu (Alfred Bühler) 17 February 2026 09:10 41

We all know that, as already stated earlier in another topic.