Minty95
Old & Deaf, but still not dead š¤£ Far too much sport for my age. Arch Linux user, and now Debian for a HomeAssitant setup. Open source user where possible, computers and gadgets to keep me occupied & thinking. https://www.minty95.com
It sounds like the best option would be a dual boot, Linux for everything except games and when you want to play just boot into Windows. If you do this i would strongly suggest a two HD set up, one for windows and one for Linux, for two reasons, if you donāt like Linux then you still have the original windows setup, two Windows will at one moment wipe the dual boot grub and youāll āloseā the Linux startup, unless you have one OS per Hard Disk. I donāt game anymore. Like you I also have an old card Gtx760 š¤£š¤£
Use timeshift, install it, just chose where you want the backups to be installed, preferably a second HD or SD Flash. Chose when like once a day, week at start up for instance and forget it. Then if you screw up your Linux, just start in console mode, timeshift --restore and five mins later your up and running.
If you want just your data to be copied, then Cron
Both are standard Linux programs, often already installed depending on what Linux you have
How about Cron? If itās just for copying your files / data, super easy to set up and extremely rapid, it doesnāt do snapshots, itās just a simple ācopy my file to another placeā, but it works š
Timeshift for the system, works perfectly, if you screw up the system, bad update for instance just start it, and youāll be back up running in less than ten minutes. Simple Cron backups for data, documents etc, just in case you delete a folder, document, image etc . Both of these options to a second internal HD