I have recently been trying out different distros, so far loving KDE Neon! But I can’t seem to find a Backup option for data, I would primarily like to backup my plasma configs, my installed external apps (Or at least references to their repo in the app store). I could be installing neon on a few other occassions, so I would like to have that feature, to mitigate repititve task to some extent
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Copy your /home to somewhere.
Completely beats the purpose of a reinstall.
You WANT to reinstall applications in a reinstall.
If you want to create a list of installed applications you can create a txt file with them before reinstall with apt list --installed > installed_applications.txt
Well, that is true, but am looking for a one-tap solution to downloading all preferred apps. Your suggested command looks promising for that, Thank you!
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I also want such feature and sometimes consider to develop it by myself, while I probably don’t have time to contribute recently. 
I think we need someone who has experiences in server side development, but I guess there are not so many people with such experiences in the KDE community.
Maybe Carl has experience in Web development, while I’m not sure if he would be interested in this feature… 
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I think we simply need something like a logger, which reads and updates the config file(s). It should prove relatively easy to make the backup, but the restore function seems more cumbersome, as it will deal with quite a few variables that may or may not change between distro updates.
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Maybe something like konsave for but kde 6 with the added feature of printing the name of installed pkgs like you can do with pacman and a check box to enable printing foreign pkgs to a separate text file.
One day the feature will be added for sure. Right now the shortest one-click solution is to use Kup (or any other backup tool) and add ~/.config and ~/.local/share directories to your cloud storage.
By the day, GNOME already has an app called SaveDesktop, it does pretty good job at saving user data.
Hello there,
I am leading an IT department of a public organisation about approx. 150 computers. We are thinking on migrating our Windows environment towards Linux/KDE environment. We plan to replace Microsoft AD by FreeIPA for authentication/authorization but we are still missing User Preferences like GPO for Windows.
We are really interested in a way to control KDE environment from a server (backup/restore, disabling some features that administrators are choosing).
Do you think all KDE parameters can be easily controlled in config files?
We can also pay for some development if necessary. If other people would be interested by this project, we would be thrilled to collaborate.
Regards,
For system and configs install timeshift. Timeshift is a system restore app that will allow you to roll back things like bad updates to the system, or to a previous backup due to our own mistakes.
For easy syncing of data use RealTimeSync. Realtime sync is like rsync with a gui and it makes setting up automatic backup syncing (mirroring) of folders easy and quick. You can do it on a schedule, or you can do it realtime like I do. I use it to automatically mirror my RAW photography and videography import folders from one disk to another.