How do I back up my dotfiles from my work laptop?
Just thinking ahead in case things go south. I have put a lot of time into customizing my environment (VSCode, vim, Linux) - for productivity mind you, not to look good per se - and I'd hate to have to recreate it from scratch. I could just push them to GitHub but I'm a bit wary of doing this on a work laptop as it could be seen as leaking proprietary code or something if found out. Should I be worried about this and/or does anyone have any good solutions?
It should be fine. You can email photos and dot file to yourself . Just don’t email any of the confidential information
rsync -avzP /home/username/ /mnt/backupdrive/work.backup.$(date +%F)/
Can't you just paste them to a temp. link somewhere and delete it once you got it
I found that with some effort you can keep the amount of work-specific configs at minimum. I push 99% of stuff to my public github, the rest goes to a work sandbox repo
SCP to local, copy into flash drive or attach as email and email to yourself