
# backup the changed files (remove them from the blacklist) & echo "$filepath" > /tmp/restic-backup.pkg_files # fetch all files currently supplied by packages With pacman (for Arch/Manjaro/EndeavoursOS etc) this would look like this: echo "Generating exclude lists." Will try this with Duplicacy in the future. I did (try) this in my restic setup, but restic was too slow to process the large list of blacklisted files. But depending on the package manager can simply create a blacklist for the files which haven’t been changed outside the package manager. T would be counterproductive to backup system data with duplicacy both in terms of performance, maintenance, reliability, cost and preventing user data from competing with system junk for the backup bandwidth.Īgreed. Keeping large installer images of the tools you need handy may be a good idea however (stuff like daVinci, matlab, capture One, steam cache, etc, anything else you might want avoid downloading). If you keep your data in iCloud (or OneDrive) this is even less of an issue: install, login, done. Consider OS reinstall an ultimate “restore”. Maintaining Acronis or Macrium of whatever your tool of choice bare metal image is therefore more work than than any benefits it provides even in the lan much less remotely. I know because I happen to migrate between machines all the tine and it’s completely painless. I don’t know what’s the state of affairs is on Linux today but both macOS and Windows have already reached the state where reinstall is unattended and takes about half an hour and can be done routinely as it’s not a such a big ordeal as it once was.



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Why do you backup backup? Your Acronis backup is only useful locally if you replicate it to remote destination and your box dies it will be way faster to reinstall than to download that multi-terabyte archive.
