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/<homedir> 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.

  • gencha@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    There will always be gaps, but describing your machine through Ansible is worth it and can be fun if you’re into that sort of thing.

    The first time I set up a freshly installed Debian laptop from my existing Ansible roles was a really enjoyable moment.

    Being able to establish a familiar base on a fresh system at will is a far greater power than pure config/data backups.