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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.

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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.

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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

I would say dd is the best solution for a very complete backup, but I’m also a fan of Borg Backup for incremental backups.

[–] frizop@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

no calls for restic? I use restic and a s3 layer on the other end, be it either backblaze/wasabi/s3/whatever for remote or minio/garage for local object storage. Stuff just works, then I write a systemd unit file to back it up according to whatever schedule I want for both a local target and a remote target. Helps to solve the 3-2-1 backup strategy this way. Good luck!

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=5M --status=progress

Just don't mix up a and b otherwise you're truly screwed.

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

I actually did this **dd if=(running system root volume) of=(local usb attached hard drive file) ** This gives me a full disk backup that would be no worse than if power got yanked. (I know laptops have batteries, for this case we are pretending to be a desktop with no UPS)