Backup solution for Fedora Asahi (For an ordinary user, not technically super savy)

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Hello,

About me: I have a basic working knowledge of Linux (command line tools, different distros, desktop enviroments) and such. But mainly using macOS and dualbooting to Asahi.

The backup scenario: In case of an update gone wrong or harddrive failure I need to have a working snapshot of the whole Asahi system in case I need to recover. It took quite a bit to configure and don´ t want to do that again all over.

Backup solution that is needed: A commercial or open source GUI backup solution for Asahi OR a solution that can deliver a fully cloned, working image of the whole system so that I can recover from a catastrophic failure. I do not want a program that just backups my home directory but the whole system - all the partitions so that I can recover a saved state. (Pika, Borgabackup are out of the question, Timeshift seems not to function, Rescuezilla LIve-cd does not boot)

Any suggestions? I am even open to making the backup from within Macbook. Thank you for your patience.

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Is github.com/bit-team/backintime any better?

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I installed Back In Time through GNOME Software but the package does not come with a GUI (although one is displayed in app preview there). So this did not work for me from there.

There was a manual way of doing it through dnf but the process stalled and did not install.

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For GUI I had to dnf install backintime-qt which worked, but I am on KDE so not sure if there are still issues with it in gnome

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Yes, it worked out somewhat. I left the program running and went for lunch. I returned and there was a snapshot created! (I tried to make another right after and rsync ended with errors…)

But I suppose if I ever get a harddrive crash I will have to make a fresh install and then replace it with the snapshot.

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Good to hear, thanks for the feedback. Just a quick heads up: Back In Time is not originally built for backing up your entire system, but running Back In Time (root) enables you to include system files into the backup.

So before relying on back in time, you should really test your backup configuration by restoring a backup and checking results.

If you cannot make sure it works the way you want it to, then you should rather try to get Timeshift working, as it is specifically designed to create backups of your system.