On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:44 PM, TE Dukes wrote:
Is there a better solution for backing up a home system to some sort of external media?
Not tested myself yet, but RH EL, and so CentOS, introduced support for Relax-and-Recover in version 6.8: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/htm...
See also http://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/
Based on http://relax-and-recover.org/usage/ it should be feasible... HIH, Gianluca