Just my opinion but I don't back up software I can reinstall from my distribution's repositories. I *do* back up .debs that aren't available in Debian. Settings for these applications are largely going to be in your home directory, most of them in ~/.config....How do I back all the applications that has been installed and all their settings?
As part of my nightly backup jobs I do
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apt-mark showmanual > /etc/apt/showmanual.listI back up /home, /root (root has some of its own configs), /etc and /usr/local (I have scripts and configs that live there). I've got a fair amount of multimedia that I back up in a separate job, but I've restored using this process several times on new-to-me hardware. From bare metal I can be back up to about 90% functionality in about an hour, 95% by the end of the day and the remaining 5% takes me about a week of tweaking this and that.
Anyway, that's the way I do it. Hope this helps -
Statistics: Posted by wizard10000 — 2024-11-13 15:24