How do you organize your backups?

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Here’s a short outline of my current backup setup on Qubes OS.

For user data, I use BorgBackup with encryption and deduplication enabled. The same data is backed up to three different targets: an internal disk, an external disk, and a remote server. Deduplication keeps the storage overhead reasonable, while encryption is handled end-to-end by Borg.

Separately from that, I use the built-in Qubes Backup for system-level backups (VMs, templates, and configuration). These system backups go to an internal disk and an external disk.

I deliberately keep user data backups and system backups separate. Borg gives me efficient, flexible, file-level backups for data, while Qubes Backup gives me a clean way to restore the whole system state if needed.

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Important information: I recently installed a fresh v4.3 Qubes OS and was fully able to restore my backuped v.4.2!

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