Backing up my Dev machine over network to restore etc Any good tools?
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hadeeclick · 2023-12-14 10:07

Hi, i have turned my laptop into a dev environment and it works well
with deploying apps etc to test localy from my main machine. My
question is, if there is a easier way to backup a snapot of it as it
is, and restore it to a said state over the network.

Like how we would do on virtual machines make a certain snapshot and
redeploy it at any time.

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THEKILLAWHALE · 2023-12-14 10:42

If Windows:

https://www.veeam.com/agent-for-windows-community-edition.html

Might be some free options for other OSes too if you’re running other.

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ElevenNotes · 2023-12-14 10:51

Veeam, but just as a tip from a fellow dev: Do not develop on your
local machine. Use containers like vscode server or others to develop
only via remote systems. This gives you way more options for different
build environments.

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hadeeclick · 2023-12-14 11:24

Yes, what ive done is my desktop is my main pc, laptop is a dev
server. both are linux. Ubuntu server on laptop.

The laptop i have is  pretty beefy one, has a 12th gen i9 and 64gb ram
+ good gpu. So felt like a waste as i never use it much.

In this context my laptop is my remote serve or environment, if that
makese sense?

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Mean_Einstein · 2023-12-14 12:29

Restic

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vivekkhera · 2023-12-14 13:01

One guy I know just makes his working environment a VM which is the
only thing running on his laptop. When he gets a new laptop he just
moves the VM over.

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zaphod4th · 2023-12-14 14:26

I develop for more than one company with different stacks, I ended
using virtual computers for each company/stack. And the end I backup
the virtual machines files and I'm done.

Helps to have 1GB network and at least 2TB space.

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brod33p · 2023-12-14 17:11

Or linux: https://www.veeam.com/linux-backup-free.html

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