What is the correct way to backup the whole system?

Box: Pogoplug V4

As we all know, the SD cards wear out quickly.
I’m thinking of backing up the whole system occasionally.
I used this command to backup once, but when I extracted the package to another SD card, the system on the new card didn’t work, the boot process failed.
I mounted the SD card at the mountpoint /tmp/rootfs on my PC, then

root@debian:/tmp/rootfs# tar -cvpzf ~/Backup.OS/Debian-4.4.0-PogoplugV4-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 .

So, what is the correct way to backup the whole system?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/2016 12:28PM by SiliCAT.

See this Wiki thread: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,23630

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Hi bodhi,
Thanks for your kind help.
I didn't know theres is a wiki.
So helpful!
Seems I have a lot to read:)