Tom Dial wrote: ... > In the fairly large number of posts in this thread I don't recall seeing > file system snapshots suggested. My current preference is ZFS, which I > know from experience to be up to what I understand to be the goal here.
both timeshift and partclone have been mentioned. both can be used to do snapshots. while i have not fully tested either of them lately. i see now that there is clonezilla too. again i've not had cause to test any of these out, but i suspect they'd work. > However, root on ZFS is a distinctly non-standard and hands on install > that is fairly straightforward and decently documented, but not for > everyone. Moreover, ZFS is not DFSG and GPL compliant, and quite a few > users would avoid it because of that. > > Alternatives include LVM and btrfs, and possibly others. I have used LVM > snapshots a little, but not for this use case. It appears to have the > capability to accomplish the objective, as described in > > https://linuxconfig.org/create-and-restore-manual-logical-volume-snapshots > > for instance. > > I have not used btrfs and therefore have no opinion about its fitness > for the case at hand. songbird
