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I try and make my workstation... I guess you'd say "stateless"?

- Nothing important stored "on" the machine itself, I put it in one or more cloud storage options, git, password manager etc. Important documents like photos and legal stuff I keep in two cloud storage services + REALLY important stuff gets burned onto a DVD or BluRay that I lock up somewhere.

- I have a.... rather long "sudo apt install blah" script that has every package I've needed or wanted to install. Every time I install something new I just add another entry to that script. Although I have to say, this is looking a bit ridiculous now at 160+ lines most of which are just individual packages.

- I have another script to clone in my dot file/config file repo and move all of those into position.

- I don't have anything to setup my user account, but that's only a 5 second job so it's probably not worth the time.

I generally find actual backups are more hassle than they're worth for this kind of thing. The old fashioned sysadmin in me knows that no backup actually exists until you test it - and I really don't feel like testing my own backups all the time.