Closed meisme-dev closed 2 years ago
I don't really see the benefits for NixOS. Why snapshot your system when you can rebuild it any time (or roll back to it), which is less fragile than using a non NixOS-aware tool for the snapshotting.
A more reasonable use case would be to use this from nixpkgs on a non-NixOS distro.
You can try running nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review pr 139738"
to evaluate the CLI. The GUI version needs some more patching of hardcoded paths (config in /etc,...).
I think this is meant more for backing up user data in your home or some other directory, which can be on its own dedicated btrfs subvolume.
@jansol The README states:
It is designed to protect only system files and settings. User files such as documents, pictures and music are excluded.
Ah, so it does, nvm then.
...But why does it get compared to userdata backup solutions right before that...
when i switched to nixos i switched from timeshift to borgbackup
@meisme-dev Any further comments on this? If your use case is backing up user data/server state I can also recommend borgbackup. NixOS has excellent support for borgbackup.
Closing this due to lack of feedback.
Project description Timeshift is a utility to create BTRFS or rsync snapshots. It'd be really cool to have on NixOS.
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