[PLUG] Linux Mint System Restore question

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Hi Tom

Thank you for answering my question. This was extremely helpful.
You're absolutely right.



On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 1:14 PM Tom <tgrom.automail at nuegia.net> wrote:

> With Linux It's really pointless to make disk image backups. What you
> really want is something to backup your virtual filesystem that is
> attribute-aware. Traditionally that UNIX 'tar' utility has been used
> for this purpose. Simply tarball your whole system excluding pseudo
> filesystems like /proc, /sys, /dev, and /tmp then compress and store
> the resulting .tar file. Alternatively there's Restic which is what I
> use and it handles the compression, encryption, and de-duplication, and
> snapshotting for you. All you have to do to restore from a
> catastrophic failure is create a new filesystem, untar your files back
> onto it (or use restic restore), and reinstall a bootloader.
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