On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:23 PM Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
- Since there is a high likelihood that my filesystem is not
completely fixed, then when I take a backup using partclone, dd or clonezilla won't those errors be carried over ?
Yes. I recommend a Pika Backup for a simple GUI solution to back things up. It doesn't have any file system specific dependencies. I'm sure if you look through the list archive for backups or start a new thread with your requirements you'll get more suggestions.
Even if I buy a new drive and restore the backup, I still might get
crashes.
You definitely want a backup with its own independent file system. A dd/ddrescue/clone is mainly for troubleshooting and disaster recovery. It's not a great backup because a backup you want easy to keep up to date. Daily or weekly, depending on your tolerance for loss.
Hi Chris,
Resurrecting this thread after a long time. Hope you all are doing well.
I mainly have some questions regarding Pika Backup and what I can do with it:
1) Can I back up my whole system using Pika/Borg Backup ?
Can I install Fedora 33 on LVM(thick) and Ext4, and get back my root system as it were with Pika Backup ?
2) Or is it that I can just get back my /home directory, everything else will have to be installed and setup ?
The reason I am asking these questions is because BTRFS did not work out for me.
I want to go back to LVM(thick) with ext4. That gave no problems.
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Sreyan Chakravarty