[Info-vax] Somewhat levels up to not port outside VMS (letter from Wyoming)

[hb]

On 12/15/18 12:13 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Neil Rieck  <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1) how do you do your LINUX snapshots?
> 
> Mostly I shut the system down and use clonezilla.  Sometimes I use dd.
> Sometimes I have the system disk mirrored, and I break the mirror and 
> rebuild with a new disk in place.
>

That is, you create a full copy of the partition/disk. Maybe that's what
was asked for. And having backups is always good.

But there are also file systems which can take a snapshot. Btrfs is one.
SUSE uses Btrfs by default. SUSE's YaST can automatically make snapshots
before each update/upgrade. You can make manual snapshots with the btrfs
tool. SUSE provides a (graphical) tool for this: the Snapper tool.

>> 2) just out of interest, what version of Linux do you run?
> 
> Red Hat 4, 5, 6.  Centos 5, 6, and 7.  Ubuntu 10.04, 16.04, and 18.04.
> Slackware 13.  Some version of Hardened Gentoo, I forget which one.
> A couple versions of Scientific Linux but I think all 6.x.  Basically 
> whatever the users demand, I wind up supporting.
> 
> Oh, yeah... also DSL and stripped-down debian versions with xenomai...
> but those aren't on 'computers' per se..
> --scott

Which version of Linux I run? As we all know, Linux is the kernel. But
you probably wanted to know which distribution. I mainly use Debian and
on older, smaller systems TCL (Tiny Core Linux) - it seems DSL is no
longer maintained.