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OS Backup - what should and what should not be backup'd?
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Backup everything as a bootable system image, that's the best method for recovery IMO.
wouldn't this take a lot of time? but I can see the advantage, being able to just roll back whatever happened
I'll think about it, thank you very much!
Only the first backup, after that with most backup software it will do incremental backups with delta transfer, so will only send the data that has changed since the last backup.