I actually did this **dd if=(running system root volume) of=(local usb attached hard drive file) ** This gives me a full disk backup that would be no worse than if power got yanked. (I know laptops have batteries, for this case we are pretending to be a desktop with no UPS)
Even for a home system? Not a fleet of data center servers. I am currently using rsync to backup /home/<<user>>/ to the ssh server. I tend to make a lot of changes to the base Debian/KDE install.
The standard backup question
What is the best way to back up as much as possible of Debian 12 on my laptop to a server that has SSH available? I am currently backing up my users /home/<homedir> folder, but I would like to be able to nuke and restore the system from a backup.
I have ventoy on an external drive if that helps any.
P.S. I would like to be able to do incremental backups too.
Whew! Kernel: 6.1.0-16-amd64 and I just recently had a kernel update I think. Debian.
I took a moment to swich back to wayland, and tried "Task Manager" (I was using "Icons only Task Manager") both are showing this issue which is resolved by switching back to X.
The issue shows up under Wayland, not X. With X everything is working ok. I have yet to try a different Task Manager under Wayland though.
Here is the problem.
I had been running X before last night. I switched to Wayland just before knocking off. When I started again today I was now running Wayland. I just now switched back to X and now my icon for kpat works properly.
Is there some issue with the Icons-Only Task Manager under Wayland?
I was going back to Wayland because it seems important Distros are dropping X. I should be running under Wayland because at some point I will have to. I am back on X for now.
I have rebooted and now my path seems correct:
rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /home/rhudson/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
I can type "kpat" at the command line and it launches.
But when I click the icon in the task manager it still says it can't find the program 'kpat'
I have included this line in my .bash_profile:
export PATH="$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
In the very last line.
My PATH still looks like this:
rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
What could be changing my path after .bash_profile gets its say?
I am also adding it now to the last line of .bashrc
rhudson@adam:~$ neofetch
,met$$$$$gg. rhudson@adam
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,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
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$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-13-amd64
d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 59 mins $$P d$' , $$P Packages: 3393 (dpkg) $$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.2.15 $$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 2880x1800 Y$$.
."Y$$$$P"' DE: Plasma 5.27.5
$$b "-._ WM: kwin
Y$$ WM Theme: plastik
Y$$. Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
$$b. Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3]
Y$$b. Terminal: konsole
"Y$b._ Terminal Font: IBM 3270 19
""" CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12700H (20) @ 4.600GHz
GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P
Memory: 3687MiB / 11577MiB
This is bookworm.
I have only worked with .txt files and .odt (libre Office files) for the past few days. I have done updates as offered, but I have not installed anything, and I have not edited any system file as far as I can remember (before this morning, see below for a troubleshooting step taken).
And I have played Minecraft and watched Youtube and Freetube.
When I noticed this happening (by trying to launch kpat this morning) I went to look at /etc/profile and added /etc/games to the id=0 part of the path setting and that did not help any so I removed it again. - something is setting the path to SU's path along the way but I don't know what.
Is it just me or is Lemmy.one doing poorly
It has been on / off this morning. One moment I can get in, later I get a "try refreshing your browser or come back later" screen. Right now It is back, it had been gone a moment ago.
Wayland fixed a strange blinking issue in Minecraft. So now Wayland all the time.
I wrote 3 sentences 3 days ago and still can not login. (Beehaw)
Sorry, this is the biggest resolution I have. I took this picture myself on a road trip between San Jose and Los Banos (with a stop at casa de fruita) This was leveled in gimp. This is placed in Public Domain.
Sorry, I do not have a larger resolution. I public domain this picture. I took this picture myself.
As fill-in ads are a vector for computer viruses and other malware I for one will NOT be disabling my ad blocker unless YouTube is willing to provide a lifetime subscription to something like Life Lock and make me whole for anything lost to whatever malware arrives as a part of an ad.
Where else can I watch sci-show, Linus-tech-tips, and all the other channels I subscribe to?
Personally, I will only be going back to Reddit if I need help with some specific thing and I can't find it in Lemmy anywhere. And only for that thread.
Hi All! Running Haiku in a VM on my production machine
Works Great!
Virtual Machine Manager VM / 1 beta 4
I see. Of course. That would mean the onboarding effort would have to ask a bunch of questions and each of the target instances would have to be able to describe their wants and don't wants. This could get much too complicated I guess.
Is there a Lua Repository?
A place where I can pick up subroutines for my Lua programs?
Lua Users! Welcome to Lemmy!
Could we create an onboarding system that randomly picks an instance for each new user? It is not too important which instance a user joins due to federation, right?
That guy with the van would hafta have a pretty big heart, the price of gas has come down but it's still not 'cheap' (Edit later @[email protected] It would be a nice service, you are right there.
There is an axis I had not considered - the relative "uptodateness" of the packages. Debian is + for stability but - for "newfeatureness"
Should I Jump to Debian 12? I have Kubuntu 23.04
I have a pretty comfortable Kubuntu 23.04 installation. I have run Debian in the past, What will I gain or lose if I clean install from Kubuntu to Debian (besides snaps, which is also a major inducement)
How to login using Jerboa [Solved]
I have a working account I access from my Linux machine using Firefox on Lemmy.ml, I can login there. The problem I am having is I just installed Jerboa on my Android phone and I can't seem to locate where to click to login or provide credentials so I can Lemmy on the go.
Where do I click to login on android Jerboa?