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…

[image] Paul: For me a backup is a backup, start it sunday night before bed to disk 1, Monday morning its finished during the night. Following week repeat to disk 2, week after disk 3, week 4 back to disk 1, That is like the way Howard and I use Clonezilla. That is entirely separate from rsy…

[image] Paul: start it sunday night before bed to disk 1 Hi Paul, whatever works for you is fine. The main thing is to have a good backup and not only do you have a good backup, but you could go back several generations if you needed to.

Years ago when I researched it, all the programs I found were way too simplistic or way too complicated, so I wrote my own in bash using rsync. It’s very basic, but it works and it’s table-driven so it doesn’t require a lot of recoding when things change.

[image] Josephj222222: all the programs I found were way too simplistic or way too complicated, so I wrote my own in bash using rsync At last, someone who understands that having too many options (or not enough) can make a program unusable. The other attribute I take issue with is programs t…

[image] Neville Jackson: At last, someone who understands that having too many options (or not enough) can make a program unusable. As we can see, neither rsync nor tar is unusable, even if they both have a plethora of options. This is why we write wrapper scripts for daily use. :wink:

At last, someone who understands that having too many options (or not enough) can make a program unusable. The other attribute I take issue with is programs that try to guess what you need, and make decisions behind your back. There’s psychological research that shows that having too many choice…

[image] Josephj222222: bet you love the current batch of LLM Negative on that. Do you think we will see an AI Linux DE soon?

[image] Alfred Bühler: As we can see, neither rsync nor tar is unusable, even if they both have a plethora of options. This is why we write wrapper scripts for daily use. Exactly the point. Scripts are a solution to over-complex commands. The original Unix had a command called rc … stands f…

Even though this item has been marked as solved, I’m still going to post my own thoughts for you, just in case something I have to say is helpful, either for you, or anyone else who reads this at a later point in time! For me the simplest solution, when you have your /home directory on a separate …

[image] easyt50: I have the /home directory in it’s own partition meaning home is not in the root directory. Actually, the /home directory is located on the root (/) partition, while your /home partition is mounted under that same /home directory, so everything under the /home directory is lo…

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