PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption (opens in new tab)

been using for a while. nice Ubuntu distro.

system76 is great

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...

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.

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