I have tested a lot of atomic and traditional distributions lately. Tons of desktop environments strictly for fun and branching out. Having a 1 2 3 backup strategy and not just having it in place, but being able to restore your backup in a timely manner to keep continuity is paramount. You can list infinite reasons why.

Why do atomic distros which are supposed to me more stable, superior to some degree immutable environments lack good backup options? You can hack things together and there are somewhat installable tools. Like timeshift or etc etc. But it seems they place a lot more emphasis on rolling back poor updates in the event than total system backups.

By default it you should have true backups then layer in rollbacks. Not the other way around. Am I missing something?

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’ve been backing up my OS and my personal files with borg to my NAS.

      Saved me a weekend of setup and config editing once before, when my drive failed.

      Or do you just remember all the config changes you did and type them out from the top of your head? And all the apps you have installed? It’s over 300 apps and 100 config files for me.

      The OS is tiny compared to personal files. It doesn’t make sense not to back it up.

  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I’ve never tried an immutable OS, but I’d love if the ability to do system backups and redeploy to another computer was just part of any OS.

    Especially when Linux encourages you to distro hopp.

    Clonezilla is great but it already happened to me that one backup wasn’t deployable on another (really old) computer