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How do you all go about backing up your data, on Linux?
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I use Pika backup, which uses borg backup under the hood. It's pretty good, with amazing documentation. Main issue I have with it is its really finicky and is kind of a pain to setup, even if it "just works" after that.
Can you restore from it? That’s the part I’ve always struggled with?
The way pika backup handles it, it loads the backup as a folder you can browse. I've used it a few times when hopping distros to copy and paste stuff from my home folder. Not very elegant, but it works and is very intuitive, even if I wish I could just hit a button and reset everything to the snapshot.