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JustinTimperio / pacback

Advanced Version Control for Arch Linux
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What is the difference between Restore Point and Snapback? #34

Closed juliuswz closed 4 years ago

juliuswz commented 4 years ago

Sorry if it is a noob question but I did not find the answer in the user guide. Thanks.

JustinTimperio commented 4 years ago

The developer guide has a write up on the specifics of both. I included it there because a lot of the differences are only apparent if you look at the code.

https://github.com/JustinTimperio/pacback/blob/master/DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md#restore-points

https://github.com/JustinTimperio/pacback/blob/master/DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md#snapshots

juliuswz commented 4 years ago

Oops, my bad, I didn't go further. So basically the snapback is like a light restore point (ignoring the differences in the code as already pointed out).

JustinTimperio commented 4 years ago

More or less yeah. Snapshots are created by a pacman hook whenever you make a change to your system. It keeps track of everything you do so that if you want to undo a series of changes you've made, you can just restore that snapshot. If you want to see what changes have been made to the system since the creation of a snapshot you just use pacback -i ss03. (sub the actual number you want obviously)

juliuswz commented 4 years ago

Got it! Thanks.