[Discuss] Backing up the entire software installation

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

Aptik is a tool that you can use to easily back up your system settings and
installed programs.
https://medium.com/@teejeetech/aptik-v18-5-5c0985eb16d3


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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 8:43 PM Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com
wrote:

> Thanks, everyone. All of this information is fantastic. I need to learn a
> lot to put it into use, but I am an optimist ...
>
> --Nancy
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:23 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:12:00 -0500
> > Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't sysadmin professionally anymore, but when I did, I also
> > > preferred the same solutiion as Rich:  Don't back up OS and software,
> > > do a fresh install.  And I still prefer that.  It's usually faster and
> > > easier, and it also gives you a nice opportunity to update to more
> > > recent versions of things, if you haven't been keeping up with
> > > updates, or even update to a newer OS.
> >
> > While Debian itself is very easily upgraded to new major releases,
> > Ubuntu isn't. Canonical have created tools to run in place upgrades. My
> > experience with them is that if you're running a desktop environment
> > then the target won't upgrade cleanly. Upgrades to console-only "server"
> > installs are more likely to succeed.
> >
> > Red Hat have created tools to upgrade major releases (EL 6 to EL 7). My
> > experience with them is that they are even less reliable than
> > Canonical's, requiring the removal of all packages from third party and
> > non-default yum repositories and the removal of those repositories. And
> > maybe the upgrade will work and maybe it won't, and even if it does
> > work you're still saddled with ext4 because that can't be converted in
> > place to xfs.
> >
> > Avoid ext4 for anything important if at all possible.
> >
> > --
> > Rich Pieri
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