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After installing your OS (Manjaro in my case) and configuring it to your likings, which directories do you backup? (or reverse-question, which directories do you not backup?) (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by u202307011927@feddit.de to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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[–] MicroMacro@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

/etc and ~/.config in priority

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is typically stored in /etc ?

[–] vepro@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

System wide configuration files

[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it possible to tell my OS that it's always going to have only 1 non-root user and relocate all the ~/.config into /etc?

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

You should not do that. Things can break. Your user configurations are stored in .config and Your System configurations stored in /etc/ are used by your system. I wouldn't recommend it.

[–] vepro@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Programs may read from /etc, but it's not recommended. Instead, I recommend having your .config directory stored somewhere, or preferably, have all configs in a git repository (often called dotfiles) and deploy them on systems for example with stow

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

It's like .config but system wide. It stands for Editable Text Configuration. Some examples is config for Sudo, Grub, X11 or SDDM.