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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday December 01 2020, @09:06AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday December 01 2020, @09:06AM (#1082768) Journal

    But you hopefully store your web pages, emails and databases in a known location, which you can then backup the same way as the home directory (though backing up a database might be better done in the form of a database dump).

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by KritonK on Tuesday December 01 2020, @10:18AM

    by KritonK (465) on Tuesday December 01 2020, @10:18AM (#1082779)

    These known locations suddenly start to add up. It's much easier to simply backup one known location, /, and be done with it. It's not as if you're going to backup all these files by hand; the computer will do it for you, and with incremental backup solutions, such as rsync or duplicity, even the computer doesn't have to do much work.