Hi Nicolas, On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 7:06 AM Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. <guix-devel@gnu.org> wrote: > > not snapshotting the rootfs > This would allow to simply care about only a few "user data" > directories
> I .. would be glad to find one I believe Guix does a good job of managing system generations and only snapshot user data. (My root is also on a faster ext4 file system, not Btrfs.) Here is what I do. [1] In order to avoid confusion with the live file system, I mount snapshots volumes separately under /history. [2] My user data is generally also encrypted and mounted to /home from networked folders under /acct. Hope that information is helpful to you. Kind regards Felix [1] https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/commit/f847bb09093c945171814e18fd7d43ed94256336/host/wallace-server/operating-system.scm#L498-L516 [2] https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/commit/f847bb09093c945171814e18fd7d43ed94256336/host/wallace-server/operating-system.scm#L654-L659
