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boy... you lost all your config files and directories starting with a dot :-(
You're absolutely correct that it will not copy any dotfiles or 'hidden' directories. But,
this was a quick and dirty example script - I actually do mine manually (-1 to me for not automating it)
I don't backup anything in . directories because I just don't care about them (who cares about what's in .dbus and I can reset my firefox preferences easily)
all the dotfiles are not my master copies but merely a local copy of the actual stored and backedup version. Actually, come to think about it I've been thinking about whether or not my config files should be version controlled...but that's another issue.
To me, clonezilla g4l partimage and the like are in a different category from rsync and tar and so on - disk / partition backup vs file backup. I use rsync and clonezilla the most.
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