On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:32:52 +0100, Rickard Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:23 +0100, Florian Friesdorf > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Looking forward to your results, please keep us posted! -- Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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