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I did this yesterday while trying to make a backup before formatting and then updating my work rig and I'm SO GLAD that the decades have taught me to take knee-jerk/automatic actions that forces me to make entire volume backups; otherwise this last month of work life would have been AWFUL!!!
You can easily set it up to do this automatically with something like timeshift...
I recently switched to an Atomic distro (Bazzite), and they have made it so easy to rollback to previous commits without any additional software.
I use rsync on a cron job and it do it automatically every time i add a new drive or volume.