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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.ml to c/debian@lemmy.ml

What is the best way to back up as much as possible of Debian 12 on my laptop to a server that has SSH available? I am currently backing up my users /home/ folder, but I would like to be able to nuke and restore the system from a backup.

I have ventoy on an external drive if that helps any.

P.S. I would like to be able to do incremental backups too.

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It has been on / off this morning. One moment I can get in, later I get a "try refreshing your browser or come back later" screen. Right now It is back, it had been gone a moment ago.

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I wrote 3 sentences 3 days ago and still can not login. (Beehaw)

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

As fill-in ads are a vector for computer viruses and other malware I for one will NOT be disabling my ad blocker unless YouTube is willing to provide a lifetime subscription to something like Life Lock and make me whole for anything lost to whatever malware arrives as a part of an ad.

Where else can I watch sci-show, Linus-tech-tips, and all the other channels I subscribe to?

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That guy with the van would hafta have a pretty big heart, the price of gas has come down but it's still not 'cheap' (Edit later @SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org It would be a nice service, you are right there.

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

but, muh KDE..?

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

There is an axis I had not considered - the relative "uptodateness" of the packages. Debian is + for stability but - for "newfeatureness"

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submitted 1 year ago by waspentalive@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have a pretty comfortable Kubuntu 23.04 installation. I have run Debian in the past, What will I gain or lose if I clean install from Kubuntu to Debian (besides snaps, which is also a major inducement)

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I can only speak for myself - I don't want to have to package and mail the things I am getting rid of. They don't have much monetary value, but I feel good someone needed it and is using it.

There are scams that sellers have to deal with like the scammer that will send a bogus check to pay for the thing and ask for change back. You deposit the check and a small number of weeks later your bank takes back the money because the check was bad. The scammer gets their 'change' back and the item they bought. You get left with a possibly negative bank account.

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's like the Ikea lamp commercial. A person has a well-used lamp they have had for a long time. They go to Ikea and find a new lamp that is better and nicer. In the next scene, the old lamp is left on the curb. In the rain. alone. abandoned. The Ikea person comes on and asks "Do you feel bad for the old lamp?"

I only hope we eventually have some of the local communities that were subreddits of yore - like SacramentoBuyNothing - a place to share your old lamp so it does not have to sit out in the rain at the curb.> waspentalive

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