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  • fsarchiver is very nice. Not fast on pulling out files, but, I mean, it’s infinitely faster than tar.

    Only quit using it so much because zfs-send is the real big hammer.

    Best part is it can regenerate partitions, or whatever, or you can restore a larger partition to a smaller one, all the cool permutations assuming the files actually fit. Can re-write users and permissions if you like, all the bells.

    https://www.fsarchiver.org/

    Support for basic file attributes (permissions, ownership, …)
    Support for basic file-system attributes (label, uuid, block-size) for all linux file-systems
    Support for multiple file-systems per archive
    Support for extended file attributes (they are used by SELinux)
    Support for all major Linux filesystems (extfs, xfs, btrfs, reiserfs, etc)
    Support for FAT filesystems (in order to backup/restore EFI System Partitions)
    Experimental support for cloning ntfs filesystems
    Checksumming of everything which is written in the archive (headers, data blocks, whole files)
    Ability to restore an archive which is corrupt (it will just skip the current file)
    Multi-threaded lzo, gzip, bzip2, lzma/xz compression: if you have a dual-core / quad-core it will use all the power of your cpu
    Lzma/xz compression (slow but very efficient algorithm) to make your archive smaller.
    Support for splitting large archives into several files with a fixed maximum size
    Encryption of the archive using a password. Based on blowfish from libgcrypt.
    

    Oh, also you can always copy it over to an iso image and mount it, or a qcow or raw image of some kind for loop mount.

    Hey, didn’t know about this: https://www.linux.com/news/mounting-archives-fuse-and-archivemount/





  • I haven’t been following, but that’s actually good to hear, proxmox needs a better ui.

    LXD, I suppose for the migration, but for any more complex orchestration I think you’ve moving to k8s or something more serious, LXD just has an odd “not enough but too much” feature set for me, I like things either push-button, or let me do it, this is kind of both.







  • InverseParallax@voyager.lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlNixOs why?
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    1 year ago

    Cloud systems invented this concept called ‘declarative environments’ basically you describe the software in a container or os and the container orchestrator builds it for you. The same every time, you just give it a recipe.

    Nixos is that for desktops.

    It takes away a lot of the bullshit, experimentation and breaking of a classic os.

    That being said, I always considered that the fun part, so ymmv.

    It’s like docker for server applications, it takes care of everything for you behind the scenes and just works (ish).