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PSA Mint + Timeshift + KVM hosters: /var/lib/libvirt is excluded by default from snapshots (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 11 hours ago by BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Converted my daily driver to my vm/docker host. I assumed all my images would be included in timeshift's snapshots, but... nope!

Fortunately I figured it out before I needed it. was testing my backups as part of prep for wiping everything and going to headless debian, found libvirt was missing.

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[-] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Timeshift is essentially a gui on top of rsync anyway, if you look at what it's doing behind the scenes.

That's the reason why I chose to learn rsync. I was frustrated with Timeshift. It failed to restore some changes multiple times. It gave me issues with docker. It also had default excludes that were annoying to change as well.

I then learned how to make a complete system backup with rsync itself. /, /boot/ and /boot/efi/ has to be done on separate rsync commands. Basically one command per partition.

A restore involves flipping the source and destination in the rsync command. It also allows me to boot into a live USB and perform a restore in the event that I really mess up and can't perform a restore normally through the installed OS.

By leaving behind the GUI, I got a lot more flexibility. It's also a lot more reliable and I've had a lot less restore issues.

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 6 hours ago

I was looking into this recently and un-convinced myself that rsync was handling all the symlinks and permissions correctly.

What's your command options? I was using -Prvtz for ages, then thought I needed an Aa too (from memory)

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