Backup to usb

General system Newbie
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Hi all,

I have btrfs and set up backing of snapshots on the same drive.
But I want to prepare USB also, just in case.

How to do that ? From where to start ?

Thanks

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If you mean backup to a thumb drive then the advise is don’t do that.
Thumb drives are not reliable enough.

I don’t use btrfs so can’t help you with that.

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Could you please explain what you mean here?

what kind of USB?(Thumbdrive, External Drive)

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Thumbdrive or external drive, i have both

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I tend to use straight rsync these days (to an incremental backup platform on my NAS), although if you want to do genuine backups to an external USB device, - rsync will also do that. If you want it to be fully automated, have a look at Borg and Vorta (Vorta for the frontend)

Example:
rsync -ruvh --info=progress2 --delete -s $Sourcepath$ $destinationpath$

Take a look at Vorta here : https://vorta.borgbase.com/

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So is this for backups? If so you can follow @Canoe advice.

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Hello,

have BTRFS as filesystem on my laptop disk. I use snapper and btrfs-assistant to create regular snapshots (after each installation, update etc for / and regular weekly for /home).

Additionally, I do a weekly backup of /home (plus some other data) on external USB-HDD, which is then put somewhere else (in case laptop is stolen or hardware crashes).

The weekly USB-backup is done using Deja-Dup (testing that at the moment)[*].

Still missing: have 2 external drives and store the fresh one in a totally different location.

Ciao,
Photor

[*] before I used rsnapshot. But that does not allow encrypted update. And it has no GUI (which is not sooo important for me)

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Can you make full backup ( root and home) with deja-dup ?

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Ui. I am not sure. I have not checked so far.

I guess, it is possible to configure like that. But: why?
To setup a new system does not take so long (1h or so, and maybe I choose another system - :thinking: uhm, no :sunglasses:).

The only important data is my private data (photos, letters, developed software, passwords, LibreOffice data of any kind …). There is no other way to save this from getting lost except backing it up.

Additionally, I save some config data (so /etc …) for faster recovery in case of disaster.

Ciao,
Photor