Backing up Ubuntu

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 16:13:05 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 15:10, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> I can't comment on Windows and Mac, but AFAIK for Linux there's no
>> such snapshot option available as for FreeBSD.  
>
>Ubuntu can run from ZFS -- possibly with an ext2/3/4 partition for
>/boot, I've not investigated yet -- and ZFS can do copy-on-write
>snapshots.
>
>Mint and openSUSE both support having the / filesystem on Btrfs and
>support snapshot-based backups. This is the default for openSUSE.

Ok, so a UNIX 'dump' alike thingy is available, too, when choosing an
appropriate file system.

Btw. I have to apologise to the OP, since somehow missed that the OP
is already using rsync and since I mentioned cp and tar, that don't
provide incremental backups. IMHO the OP should stay with rsync.