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How often do you update your system? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I find that I habitually open a terminal and run an update on every boot of my system (which gets rebooted once a day). I'm curious what other people do.

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[–] lucky18391@lemdro.id 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Im the same im daily checking for updates. However i do backup my system regularly too!

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

However i do backup my system regularly too!

What form do your backups take? For my desktop, I run Pika Backup every hour on my home directory.

[–] lucky18391@lemdro.id 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use timeshift and also do weekly clonezilla images. I'll check ouy pika.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’ll check ouy pika.

Timeshift and Pika are similar — both are deduplicating backup solutions; Timeshift uses Rsync, and Pika uses Borg.

[...] and also do weekly clonezilla images.

I currently don't have any system in place to create system images. It's defintiely something I should look into, though. It would be nice to have a full restore point.

How many images do you keep at a time? Just one? Images can take up a huge amount of space, so I would imagine that having mulitple saved at a time is rather expensive.

Edit 2024-03-31T02:36Z:

Timeshift and Pika are similar — both are deduplicating backup solutions; Timeshift uses Rsync, and Pika uses Borg.

I looked into Timeshift a bit more to double check my statement, and it looks like timeshift does have a snapshot option that uses BTRFS.