From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store. Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 05:06:28 -0800 Message-ID: <20170302050628.40b1f49d@khaalida> References: <20170223103255.3574cd7d@khaalida> <87mvd3x2f7.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQRR-0007w7-RR for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:06:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQRN-00043a-Sb for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:06:45 -0500 Received: from sender-pp-092.zoho.com ([135.84.80.237]:25450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQRN-00040W-Lx for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:06:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87mvd3x2f7.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: help-guix@gnu.org On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:56:28 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >=20 > I=E2=80=99m using borg for backups, but I haven=E2=80=99t 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?