TL note: "keikaku" means "plan"

When you finally set up your somewhat working backup, and just a week after, your rootfs suddenly borked beyond all repair: *Just as planned*
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[–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

So, using an immutable system, one could achieve... having one less backup target, apparently? Which is good, but seemingly not good enough for this particular case. Β―_(ツ)_/Β― As far as I understand, it could certainly save the day if I mess up its settings, but in case of FS corruption it effectively just adds a different kind of procedure that I'll have to execute for its full restoration? And splitting my system and data to a different partitions... well, this approach in itself have nothing to do with immutability, isn't it?

Meanwhile, I managed to recreate exactly the same system with all my data and stuff, down to ctimes, mtimes, hardlinks and reflinks, as if nothing happened at all. Just saying!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Your data ideally resides on a completely separate disk, not just a different partition.

    and sure, you managed to recreate your system... how much time did it need? Vs booting an atomic image from another drive and continuing where you left off.

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