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[-] art@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Linux Is Only Free if You Don’t Value Your Time

This one is my favorite.

My co-workers SSD failed, and he was out most of the day. My SSD failed, and I was back up and running in about 10 minutes.

[-] kirincorleone@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

How were you able to do this?

[-] D_Air1@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Most likely through a combination of backups and the fact that all your apps can be redownloaded from the repos with a single terminal command followed by a list of packages. I literally keep a list of installed packages. When I reinstalled my system years ago. I restored all configs from my backups and just installed all the same packages I had last time. Reboot and boom you are up and running in no time flat. Depending on your internet speed.

[-] kirincorleone@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

That makes sense, can you please guide me to a term that I can google or perhaps a guide article, if you dont mind, please?

[-] D_Air1@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

You will come across all sorts of different solutions by just searching for linux backups. I personally use the app vorta which uses the command line tool borg under the hood. As for the list of packages, that will differ per distro, so just search how to list all installed packages on your distro.

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