From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: dian_cecht@zoho.com
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store.
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:13:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efyfwyv9.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170302050628.40b1f49d@khaalida>
dian_cecht@zoho.com writes:
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:56:28 +0100
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>>
>> I’m using borg for backups, but I haven’t tested backing up the store
>> itself because the state of my software environment is fully described
>> by the manifest and the guix version.
>
> Doesn't that mean the system can't be restored from the backups without
> having to reinstall the entire OS?
Yes. In my case that’s an acceptable trade-off.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-02 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-23 18:33 Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store dian_cecht
2017-03-02 12:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-02 13:06 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-02 14:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-03-06 0:27 ` Chris Marusich
2017-03-06 0:53 ` Leo Famulari
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