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excluding documents and desktop
In addition to a complete SD! clone, I want to, in effect, create some snapshots of my system. My Desktop and Documents folders are large. Is there any reason I can't/shouldn't exclude these folders from these supplemental backups (snapshots), which I thought I'd put into either a sparse image or a read-only image...I presume that the latter is better unless I want to reuse the target in which case a sparse image is better. Then, if I have to restore some day, I can go back to the one of snapshots and then take the Documents and Desktop folders from a more recent backup.
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What are you trying to accomplish? In general terms, aren't your Desktop and Documents folder the most 'valuable' data you have?
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So, what am I trying to accomplish? I've been having trouble with my system (I've posted about it here), and I want to be able to "snapshot" my system so the process of disaster recovering isn't so laborious. Snapshotting via a complete SD clone a 200GB drive takes a lot more room than I have (despite my having recently bought a couple more external drives). So, I thought one way of accomplishing "snapshotting" would be to clone the main drive, minus the Documents and Desktop folders (since the latter are backed up up in other ways), so I could store more snapshots. Is there an easier way to accomplish what I want to do? I used to rely on the Sandbox feature of SD, but although I still use a Sandbox, I've been having trouble with the system on the underlying drive (which I've written about here) not booting after I work from the Sandbox for a while. |
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Well... I guess a Sandbox is what I'd suggest. Don't boot from it if you don't want to, but it contains a 'snapshotted' system that can be restored (by cloning back), right?
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I DO want to boot from the Sandbox. I love the feature, and have been using it for a while (a couple of years, I think). Something is obviously amiss with my system (or at least was, I rebuilt it a week ago from a SD! clone that was a month old...maybe it's cured). But, I don't have confidence right now that things are going well, and I wanted to take regular snapshots so that if things head south again I don't have to work for so many hours to restore the system to health. I thought if I snapshotted the system regularly, then if things crapped out I could restore from the snapshot (minus Docs and Desktop) and then I could copy those two folders from my other backup methods.
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Right, but a Sandbox will do this, just don't boot from it and you'll get what you're looking for.
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