Hi, On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:23 +0100, Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rickard, > > On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:45:14 +0200, "Rickard Nilsson" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > However in your case >> > http://mawercer.de/~marc/minimal-install-archive.patch should be >> enough >> > if you're lucky. >> >> Thanks! I will start out from that and see where I end up. > > did you made progress with that? For a full backup there might be > more > files needed, e.g.: > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > /etc/passwd > /etc/shadow > /etc/group > /var/lib/wicd/*
I used Marc's bootstrapper and it worked, but I haven't yet got to that perfect re-deployment system I want. I'm still working on basic stuff I want to get in place before switching over to NixOS. However, thanks for the hints about various pieces of state spread out all over the place, even in a Nix system :) On my current NixOS test setups I actually run with the root filesystem in memory (tmpfs), and then I am forced to solve these things as I discover them. So essentially, I'm doing re-deployment on each reboot now, which is exactly what I want. I haven't got the Nix store/db/profiles sharing sorted out completely yet, but I think I'm getting there. My plan is to end up with one master host that is the only one that can write to the shared store and db. This host will then be the single point of backup. All other hosts and workstations will boot from the network and mount the store and db read-only over NFS or CIFS. Regards, Rickard _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
