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Most people don't really get out their way to set up backup manually. Either system should try really hard to avoid corruption or implement a recovery system. Ideally both.
Well, the Linux world is moving towards btrfs and zero-setup automatic snapshots. Those would have made it trivial to rollback a broken update like that. Unfortunaly, it's still going to take a few years before Debian makes the move...
Debian is as traditional as it gets, change comes slooowly. I don't see why it's still so popular
You don't need to get out of your way. You can, for example, just tar --one-file-system, clonezilla or rsync or maybe even drag and drop copy all your important file systems on a USB HD, USB stick or cloud storage that you then check and unplug/unmount.
This is very easy and can run in the background while you do some other stuff. Even if the backup isn't good and for example doesn't have proper permissions, because you drag and drop copied, it will have the info required to reinstall and restore the exact system you had at the time of the backup.