Hi aaditya
Thanks for that, I'm looking to gadmin-rsync right now, sounds a great GUI for rsync, I will use it.
I just have some newbie questions that it'll be cool if I could figure the answers.
1: So After let's say, I reinstalled my system, I just need to restore all the directories and files as the root?
will it restore my OS to the back up state? or I need to do something after that.
2: I want to back up only the needed directories and not the entire / directory if possible. depending on my first post, What directories should I grab?
I believe if I grab the entire / directory and move all of them into my new system it will break my operating system as some system configurations are different from the old one.
For example in archlinux wiki it says that I should not replace my old fstab with the new one.
3: regarding the installed packages. The arch wiki page sent my head spinning, so I've searched through manjaro forums and on this topic,
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=10274.15, donutello suggested these commands:
pacman -Qqne > /home/$USER/pkg.list (for grabbing a list of installed apps)
To restore,
pacman -S --needed $(< /home/$USER/pkg.list)
This means that I need to install aur packages manually and I cannot back them up, right?
I love BtSync, and I like to have it at all of my new operating system installs, unfortunetly it's on aur and not on manjaro repos.
Thanks!
My English is not great, if something needs more explaining please let me know
Cheers
Hadi