What's the best way to Back-up a PinePhone?

[TeckMonster]

I’ve been dallying the PinePhone since January and it’s gotten to a point that I’m content with and I don’t want to lose it. There’s a new system update, but I’m too scared to do it until I back it up.
So, what is the best way to back-up a PinePhone?

P.S. Fantastic work devs! You guys are all absolute legends!

[Strit]

Is your install on SD card or eMMC?

If on the SD card, simply clone the SD card to an image file on a PC.

If on the eMMC, you can boot another install from SD card and clone the eMMC to an image file on the SD card (or a USB drive if you have a USB-C dock) that’s large enough.

[Fabby]

1. Is there an ARM version of CloneZillla in the repos?
2. How can I check myself without bothering you next time?
3. if there is, OP can use this excellent tutorial:

[HowTo] make a crash-proof backup for Manjaro

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ A few things you need to know about backups: One copy does not constitute a good backup! Backing up is not about the backup itself, it’s all about the easy and fast restore! Backup files should be stored on an external disk that gets connected to the system only during a backup or restore cycle so that RansomWare cannot encrypt your backup when it stumbles into your system through wine ¹ Alternatively, you can use a NAS directory that is protected by a password and that get…

[Strit]

There is:

https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/any/clonezilla

[Xeno]

What is the best way to backup not the entire system but user preferences and data (phonebook, recent calls list, SMS archive, telegram data etc) during system upgrade? Is it enough (and is it possible) just to copy the entire home/manjaro folder and then paste it again replacing the existing files? Currently I’m trying to use pinephone as a daily driver, so each time after reflashing the new OS build image all this data is lost.

[Fabby]

1. The turorial does contain a section “data backup”:

   @Fabby

   Make a data backup

   On top of the Cold System Backup above you should still take a data backup every day / every couple of days because:

2. The data backup program called borg used in the tutorial is in the ARM repositories…
3. i don’t have a PinePhone (yet, I’m waiting for the dual-SIM version) but the technology and logic in the tutorial is generic to any and all Linux distros, so just follow the tutorial if you want to make System and/or Data backups.