On 31/05/2020 15:59, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi, Michael Howard wrote:With linux (debian) you could just create an image (using dd for example) of the drive in order to restore it at a later date.If a backup shall have a chance to be absolutely safe it must be done while the backuped filesystems are unmounted or mounted read-only.
Obviously.
This implies that it must be done by an operating system that it not using these to-be-backuped filesystems for its own needs. Debian Live comes to my mind.
As good a choice as any.
Do we have a feature to get a list of installed packages and to later use it for re-installation ? I normally need weeks to get everything installed on my next machine. In the beginning it is easy to choose the big chunks. But the previous machine is then old as stone and can hardly serve for the fine tuning. So i need to find out what's still missing and install on demand.
Well then it's not pristine, which is what the OP wanted. -- Michael Howard