Backups, tools, rsync, and recovery
In this section, we will review what a backup is and what to consider when doing one. Having a basic understanding of the terms when choosing a backup tool and strategy is essential.
What is a backup?
A backup is a copy of specific data in a separate location – on another hard disk (HDD), a separate partition, cloud storage, or a remote server. A backup ensures that any files will have a copy if your system suffers a FS or SW failure. These can be any long-term projects, documents, SW applications, art, and so on. While recovering the OS is easy via reinstallation, lost family photos may be unrecoverable.
We can even back up the whole OS with its configuration, the installed SW, and our personal files. However, backing up an installed OS or making a snapshot of a whole partition makes sense for servers. Considering that in case of a failure, Manjaro can be reinstalled in 15 minutes, we need to back up only our personal data and potentially...
