Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt 写道：
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> writes:Generations also don't allow you to btrfs send/receive, which I think was Maxim's main point. If there's another KISSy way to back up whole Guix Systems over the Internet, I don't know of it (rsync can't, nor can borg or restic or…, and everything else is too much work :o).Question: What is the point of backing up a Guix system if the config.scm suffices?
I did blatantly invite that question, didn't I :-)
Is there something that is not contained in config.scm?
So. much. state.‘Oh, right, /etc/networkmanager's gone now. Let me get my notebook with passwords. Oh, that reminds me: all user passwords are empty, have to change that ASAP. Phew. Oh, I have to reinstall my printer, good thing I have time for that while people are angrily calling me about deadlines. What's this about changed SSH host ke—’
That's trivial stuff I thought of while writing, and it already adds up to minutes of human work (=downtime). All at the most inconvenient and stressful time. Now multiply that by the number of things I forgot.
I don't consider a back-up that can't be restored while drunk a back-up.
[…] time, of course! ;)
I've learnt the hard way over the years that, for me, nothing else matters.
♪, T G-R
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