PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption

Posted by fxtentacle 4 days ago

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Comment by sandreas 21 hours ago

While I like the article, I much prefer ZFS by now.

With CachyOS having ZFS in the installer, you can just natively encrypt your setup with an officially maintained project, USB drives are usable too.

After this you can use zrepl to autosnapshot and sync your ZFS either remotely via SSH or on USB with a few simple shell commands vor even use manual zfs snapshot / zfs send.

If something breaks syncing back also works flawlessly.

I personally also use ZFSBootMenu which lets you clone an old snapshot if e.g. the kernel breaks and having a separate dataset for /home lets you keep your documents if required.

I'm not going back to luks/btrfs/ext4 anytime soon...

Comment by akimbostrawman 1 hour ago

Openzfs and ZFSBootMenu has been my personal single greatest additions to linux. I would switch to BSD before i would use linux again without a competent bootmanager and filesystem.

Comment by dhedlund 1 day ago

One flag that you might have missed. If you have sparse files such as qcow disk images, you might also need `-S`, `--sparse` or it will expand the file to its full disk size when copied to the destination.

Comment by fxtentacle 1 day ago

Thanks :)

Comment by scrollop 1 day ago

Great OS! Though have some issues with waking from sleep.

Comment by itsthecourier 1 day ago

been using for a while. nice Ubuntu distro.

system76 is great

Comment by neilfrndes 1 day ago

I daily drive a PopOS (22) on my laptop, it simplifies dealing with Nvidia drivers.

I recently upgraded to the 24.x version that runs Cosmic DE. While I loved the visuals and design, the whole OS was buggy. The GitHub issues about memory leaks I faced related to cosmic have been open for a while.

Comment by fxtentacle 1 day ago

Yeah I'm still on 22. But I also usually use the ESR versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, because especially when I'm traveling, I value the stability of my home workstation over almost all else.

Comment by Wojtkie 21 hours ago

Yeah, the COSMIC lack of polish caused me to jump to CachyOS.

Comment by aPoCoMiLogin 1 day ago

can you link these issues? i'm planning upgrade from 22.x but i'm afraid of some breaking issues. also did you upgrade or reinstall ? if upgrade, were there some issues with that ?

Comment by vlod 15 hours ago

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/2851

I was a big fan of popos (for a long time) and upgraded to the latest rust based one. However my firefox stopped working (no response for toolbar menu items and buttons).

The work around is to reset your display. After having to do this 5+ times a day (for months), I said sod it and went to ubuntu 22. Sad.

note: failed only my intel nuc, but not on thinkpad x1 carbon.

Comment by k1musab1 1 day ago

Not the commenter above. I used popOs 22 for 4-5 yeas daily, and have been quite happy. I was prompted to update to 24 through the system panel, accepted, and after the update was done, I encountered multiple issues with Cosmic. Could not restore, and after futile attempts, wiped and re-installed Ubuntu 22. I do not have a system76 PC, but an older Dell WS. I regret accepting the suggested breaking update.