On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:29:24 -0500 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > So having had this > emergency, I now want to keep, in perpetuity, my last full backup of > the now-dead machine.
You may prefer to grab the last full backups and any subsequent partial backups, so that you have a snapshot of the system as of the last backup. This sounds like a job for amvault. I have not used it, but others may pitch in with advice. -- A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars. -- Will and Ariel Durant, III The Story of Civilization (1944) epilogue