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Tip Top Tips: Have You Backed Up Your Install? |
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Editor’s Note: Tip Top Tips is a semi-monthly column in The PCLinuxOS Magazine. Periodically, we will feature – and possibly even expand upon – one tip from the PCLinuxOS forum. The magazine will not accept independent tip submissions specifically intended for inclusion in the Tip Top Tips column. Rather, if you have a tip, share it in the PCLinuxOS forum’s “Tips & Tricks” section. Occasionally, we may run a “tip” posted elsewhere in the PCLinuxOS forum. Either way, share your tip in the forum, and it just may be selected for publication in The PCLinuxOS Magazine.
This month’s tip is from ramchu.  I more than likely over do it, but I use Timeshift, Grsync, and MyLiveGTK (original version) Timeshift runs daily and monthly backups, I keep five daily backups and one monthly backup. This backs up the operating system. Once a week I run Grsync and backup my home/user partition onto a USB attached hard drive. Also once a week I use MyLiveGTK and create a remaster of the complete system, excluding the extremely large files and folders, and this gets put on a USB stick running Ventoy. This way I have options, and if I need, I can be back up and running in a very short time if I have a bad update, drive failure, or get to dinking around and crash the system. |
