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What to include in a backup? (Ubuntu)
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I take a btrfs snapshot of my root partition daily so I can easily revert to an older version if I break something or get a bad update. There's nothing on my desktop or laptop root partition that can't be easily replaced, so I don't bother with any backups apart from the snapshots.
On my server, I keep multiple backups of /etc/ since there is a lot of stuff in there that I manually setup.
If you just want to backup the configuration, you can backup the entire /etc/ directory, it will only take a few MB when compressed.
Do you know what you'd have to backup if you wanted to backup desktop settings, fonts, themes, app design customization, and so on? Would that be /etc/? I usually want to backup the desktop environment itself, if that makes sense, because I easily backup files (pictures, videos, and so on) already but I'm not sure how to backup the desktop itself and it'd take so much more time setting that up again so that's actually my priority. Sounds like it would be /etc/ but just clarifying.
I'm using PopOS.
You want to back up your home dir (/home/username) for that, specifically .config and .local dirs in there. But be aware that there are a lot of apps that circumvent that convention, for example Firefox uses .mozilla and so on. If you set your file manager to show hidden files you'll see a lot of stuff in there, unfortunately.
Thank you! I'll back that up.