Gottfried, One way to do this is to use images to copy the entire hard drive or individual partitions to a new location, which preserves all your data and configurations. I have done that many times using Clonezilla.
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php[1] On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 6:09:23 PM MST Skyler wrote: > If you declared all your packages in the file that contains your > operating-system definition then you can just save that file and point a > new guix installation towards it to restore your configuration. If you've > run imperative commands (for example, `guix install some-package`) then > you'll need to record those separately, `guix package -I` will list all of > the packages that you've installed imperatively. I'm not sure about other > imperative actions, I'm obsessive about doing things declaratively exactly > because it makes this kind of situation easy to deal with (I have a habit > of bungling up my machines and needing to install them fresh). If you can > share more details about how you have configured your guix system then I > might be able to offer more specific advice. > > Of course, this will do nothing to save your data, if you have data > documents or other files in your home directory that are not system > configuration then those will need to be saved separately in either case. > > Sincerely, > Skyler > > ------- Original Message ------- > > On Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 at 3:50 AM, Gottfried <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have on one harddisk Guix installed, > > on a second harddisk GNUinOS. > > > > I want to reinstall GNUinOS > > > > and may be later on the same harddisk, > > on which Guix resides, reduce the size of the harddisk > > and install Trisquel on a second partition on it. > > > > To be on the save side > > I would like to copy... my Guix to a separate harddisk > > in order not to loose it. > > > > So that I can in the worst case replace it/I don’t know what to call it > > > > What are the options. > > > > I was reading the cookbook, but the procedure is not clear to me. > > > > What are the commands to copy/replicate my Guix System installation > > to an external harddisk (via USB connected) and later in case > > recopy it. > > > > > > Kind regards > >
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