Ok, so most of us here probably run Linux on some machine. But what is your recommended backup solution? If there’s an HD crash or my laptop is stolen, I would like to restore all of my /home/user/ directory, including my dot/config files. I’ve seen some people backup config to Github. Or Gnome has…

I’m lazy, I have DejaDup going to my One Cloud account. I only backup the stuff in certain parts of my /Home/ dir the rest can just die until I do a fresh install. :face_with_monocle: Most of the time I mis-configured something and needed to reinstall anyways.

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