Hello there! Here’s the thing: I got some old HDD for my Debian home server, and now that I have plenty of disk space I want to keep a backup of the OS, so that if something accidentally breaks (either SW or HW) I can quickly fix it.

now the question is: which directory should I include and which should I exclude from the backup? I use docker a lot, is there any docker-specific directory that I should back up?

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    If you need to restore it, back it up.

    How do you plan to restore if the whole drive dies?

    • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.socialOP
      31·
      2 days ago

      thanks for the reply!

      How do you plan to restore if the whole drive dies?

      good point: I guess if the problem is that I messed something up I may just run the backup script in reverse? if the problem is HW then I’d have to reinstall and then restore the backupped directory probably is there a “standard” way?