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"Ubuntu Mate is as good a place to start as any, for a second option I'd
recommend going with Arch Linux or a derivative"
"As for your extremely sensible question about backup/restore of your
bare metal testing instance you unfortunately have the usual entire
plethora of *nix options to choose from - there are so many ways to do
this. I'm going to ignore user-level tools such as rsync and it's many
front ends/wrappers, professional backup apps and a whole bunch of other
options and concentrate on the two that might actually help in your case
- one "online" and one "offline""
ave yourself a LOT of hassle by versioning important parts of your
filesystem (which is arguably all of it - another reason to have a
snapshotting COW system of course) but at minimum just install etckeeper
(sudo apt install etckeeper) which will save you when a badly behaved
package upgrade *doesn't* backup your original /etc configuration files
before replacing them with the new defaults. It's just generally a good
idea to version /etc anyway especially if you're doing heavy configuration.
20160109 1020
On 09/01/2017 09:15, Daniel Robinson via list wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I've returned to using Linux as my desktop OS after a few years away.
> I'm using Ubuntu mate for simplicity (minimal).
>
> # Could you advise on a system backup solution?
> I would like to be able to take a snapshot of my system and then when i
> inevitably break it I can quickly and easily restore it.
>
> My system drive is currently 120GB SSD, and I have 2x 1TB HDD for backup's,
> Private data is stored on another device.
>
> _
>
> I often follow guides online to find solutions to problems. quite often
> the guides don't fix my issue. I end up changing settings and running
> apt-get install a lot and my system soon fills up with a great deal of
> stuff that my system doesn't require and often things will break.
>
> # How do you keep track of applications and requisites that are
> installed on your system via apt-get?
>
> Is there a line of commands that can undo all of these without reverting
> to a system backup.
>
> _
>
> Ports 135 - 139
>
> I've noticed that although these ports are closed, they're not stealthed.
>
> # Should i be concerned?
>
> Many thanks
>
>
I rarely back up my OS system. I do back up my data (docs , email etc)
and by that i mean multiple back ups on different hardware.
I find an overwrite of my Linux systems by a reinstall is easier.
This is not true of my multi-boot systems with a Windows base.
I back these up totally as an image using Paragon software (used for
many years , since disasters of Win 95 etc) as well as separate docs
back ups
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