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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: to save my Guix System installation
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 18:32:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilcjovoo.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53dd5997-4e78-3e5c-a621-54283701d424@posteo.de> (gottfried@posteo.de's message of "Tue, 23 May 2023 10:50:40 +0000")

Hi Gottfried,

yes, making a backup is good.

You will want to backup the Guix configuration files and your data.

So probably this means you should copy /etc/config.scm and the files in
your home directory.

You could plug in an ext4-formatted external disk and copy the files
with the “cp -a” command.  Or learn to use a complicated backup tool
like borg, which other pages on the web explain better than I can.

However, note that installing Guix on the same disk as another operating
system will only be easy if you are using grub-efi-bootloader and if
your computer has an OS selection tool built in or if you have installed
something like rEFInd.

Regards,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-23 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-23 10:50 to save my Guix System installation Gottfried
2023-05-23 16:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2023-05-23 17:17   ` Felix Lechner via
2023-05-24 16:16     ` Gottfried
2023-05-24 16:38       ` Felix Lechner via
2023-05-25  0:35     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-05-25  9:39       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-05-25  9:42         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-05-24  1:09 ` Skyler
2023-05-24 22:28   ` Soren Stoutner via

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