I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed on it and some other private software and files. I want to make a complete image of the current state of my system and than make backups on daily basis of my work. What is the best tool to accomplish this?
I've found some tools like partclone
(from CloneZilla), dd
or rsync
. But those tools either create a one time image or backup certain directories (like a photo directory). Using partclone
, I have to recreate a complete image of my system, which is time consuming, but it's also not efficient as I'd like to update an image by the difference between the current state and previous image.
If my laptop's HDD is broken or I messed up something severely using root, I want to be able to restore everything (projects, updates and so on...) up to yesterday.
Does an all-in-one solution exist? If not, which tool is suitable to create a backup of the entire system?