> - either not snapshotting the rootfs / at all, with the hypothesis that > we get it back entirely from config files. Is that possible ? Is there > information in / (I think of /etc in particular) that is saved, not > temporary and not managed by guix system that would justify that we > want to snapshot / at all? > This would allow to simply care about only a few "user data" > directories, and be sure to not miss anything when there's a need to > restore the state. > > I can't find easily a case of successful use of the second > configuration, but would be glad to find one, as well as some discussion > about what would be a recommended way to secure the state beyond > dotfiles.
I've found some equivalent information on the NixOS side here : https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Impermanence Some (rare) directories indeed seem that would better be saved because their information is useful for the system, in the case of NixOS, it seems to be "/etc/nixos", "/etc/NetworkManager" (for system connections), "/var/log", "/var/lib". However, I have much more files that aren't linked in the store, especially in the /etc directory (at least 20 files). Has anybody tried to do something like this on Guix? -- Best regards, Nicolas Graves
