Hi! A friend just recommended the backup tool that comes with Ubuntu. I took a look at it and was wondering what you guys include and exclude from the backups. I just installed wire guard VPN and but the config file in the etc/wireguard folder, where it belongs. I would have to include this folder as well if I want to keep my configs. And I guess many programs do the same, so how do you know what to include, so you can just revert to the last backup if something breaks or you get a new machine? Maybe that is a stupid question, but it was going through my head for some time now. Thanks a lot!
It’s best not to overuse native filesystem snapshots. Someone else was saying they delete them daily, that’s the right spirit.
Filesystem snapshots can’t be dissociated from that filesystem and they are strictly incremental to the point they’re literally all-or-nothing which is quite inconvenient.
They’re good for those “oh fuck” moments when you’ve just deleted the wrong dir but that’s about it.
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