It’s most useful for something like /home so you have a full backup of your home directories without having to worry if some app has dumped its settings on a folder you don’t have marked for backup. But also backing up / is useful because it gives you an easy recovery in the event of say disk failure. Just restore the entire system from a backup.
I use borg with borgmatic. I just back up / (which includes home) and exclude some folders I don’t want (like /mnt or /tmp).
It does the same as you just said.
I have 20 borg snapshots of my nearly full 1tb drive which takes about 400gb of space on my NAS.
I do it at the file structure level, not at the block device level as the article suggests. Why would I want to back it up at the block device level instead?
It’s most useful for something like /home so you have a full backup of your home directories without having to worry if some app has dumped its settings on a folder you don’t have marked for backup. But also backing up / is useful because it gives you an easy recovery in the event of say disk failure. Just restore the entire system from a backup.
I use borg with borgmatic. I just back up / (which includes home) and exclude some folders I don’t want (like /mnt or /tmp).
It does the same as you just said.
I have 20 borg snapshots of my nearly full 1tb drive which takes about 400gb of space on my NAS.
I do it at the file structure level, not at the block device level as the article suggests. Why would I want to back it up at the block device level instead?