How does one backup the usr overlay? On traditional immutable systems backing up the home folder is enough, but I'm curious how the overlay may change the necessary targets to perform a successful backup. Thx.
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Cheaha said:
How does one backup the usr overlay? On traditional immutable systems backing up the home folder is enough, but I'm curious how the overlay may change the necessary targets to perform a successful backup. Thx.
Interresting, well the overlay lives in /var/lib/rakuos so that would need to be backup and then restore somehow but thats harder then it sounds because once the overlay is mounted on /usr we can't unmount it on a live system. but once the Fedora 44 based release is out I will be developing different things to really start taking advantage of the fact RakuOS is at its core an Atomic distro. there is quite a bit we can do I think that other distros can't just due to our Atomic base, like full system reset.. say you have a PC with RakuOS and you give the PC away we could add a "reset to factory" option so the person you give the pc to just sets their account up etc and there quite bit more of ideas like this I have churning in my head haha
But after this post once the 44 release is out I will research and start testing some back up options for the overlay
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