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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/ 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.

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[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it's worth it to just start fresh. Keep your user data, nuke the rest and setup from scratch w/automation if it's extremely customized to your liking.

I personally try to use the default config as much as possible so there's not as much to set up after installing from ISO.

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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