On 20 Sep 23  20:31:00, August Abolins said the following to Nick Andre:

AA> Your recommendation for drivesnapsot reminded me of driveimg  
AA> which operates the same way. I have used driveimg when i had  
AA> spare external drives. It worked flawlessly in the reverse  
AA> direction to rebuild a system onto a new HDD.

Exactly.

AA> I think I will simply need to get an 2TB external drive and  
AA> just use driveimg for the full system backup.
AA> 
AA> But I am liking the idea of using gpgtar | winscp or restic for  
AA> SFTP'ing copies of some important directories.

Hard drives are so cheap nowadays. Whatever works for ya... scripting 
something for SFTP should be easy.

Nick

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