From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: protect generations
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:50:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnfpy2mm.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200105224236.2e4fb9c2@jasniac.instanton>
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Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:
> Hello—
>
> One of the great features of Guix is that one can roll back his
> profile. But I did a garbage collection (gc) that was too aggressive
> such that a relevant old profile disappeared. I presume this is gone
> forever.
>
> Is it possible to lock certain generations (of certain users) such that
> 'guix gc' would not touch it?
There are AFAIK two ways in which 'guix gc' can delete "live" profiles:
1. you used the '-d' option, which deletes old profile generations,
optionally filtering on age
2. the profile was inaccessible/invisible to gc (e.g. on a mounted drive
that was unavailable)
Do either of these scenarios ring a bell?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-11 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-05 21:42 protect generations Marco van Hulten
2020-01-07 12:11 ` zimoun
2020-01-12 14:57 ` Marco van Hulten
2020-01-14 16:38 ` zimoun
2020-01-15 8:38 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-01-15 10:54 ` zimoun
2020-01-11 23:50 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
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