As an alternative approach you can look into ansible. As opposed to making a system backup you can define your system configuration as code that you can redeploy with it.
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Yeah but I had a hard time setting things up manually (docker), so port that to ansible would be quite the job I guess (especially nginx), and I'm toying with the idea to compile Lemmy from scratch so eventually I could help one day.
Just toss your drives into the new machine. Any reconfiguring for the new hardware would be pretty minimal with Mint.
I'd probably try that out one day, with a copy.
Would that work with, say Lemmy config?
It'd work for everything, data lives in your storage devices, not the motherboard.
Barring UEFI/bios config issues or hardware incompatibility you just swap hardware and boot up exact same as before.
You might then need to make small tweaks if things aren't setup quite ideally. For instance if you have lemmy binding to a specific IP rather than 0.0.0.0 and you use dhcp reservations then you might need to adjust that IP in config. Or if you don't have fstab using uuid then your mounts might be messed up. But that stuff can all be avoided and they're minor to fix.
Thank you!
I'll play around with it, cloning a disc shouldn't be that hard :-)
Never run a lemmy server but I can't think of anything offhand that would change lemmy configs. Honestly, IDK. You'll likely have to reconfigure your network card but that would take all of 30 seconds.