Does it makes sense to backup the whole partition as opposed to their files?
- by maaartinus
I know that on Windows it's quite futile to try to backup the "C:" partition file-wise and that's why a full partition backup is needed. Is it OK to backup a the root Linux partition file-wise? Are there any downsides?
Clarification
Here, I don't care about advantages of partial backups. I'm going to do additional separate backups of /home, etc. What I'm interested in here is the comparison of
backup of all files from /
vs. backup of the whole partition as device
What are the advantages of something like dd if=/dev/sda1 ...?