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

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <pv30f4$1k2a$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, hb  <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
>On 12/15/18 12:13 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>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.

Yes, and for a lot of applications it's a big deal to be able to do it
on the fly without shutting anything down.

But I like having a full copy of the operating system disk on a bootable
medium, so if the thing fails I can just drop a new drive in and restart.  
I don't feel the need to do this with user disks which can just be restored
as needed, mind you.

>>> 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..
>
>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.

I run LOTS of stuff that is no longer maintained... from Red Hat 4 to
VMS 5.1.  I still have one Ultrix machine left, even, which is the worst
of both worlds.
--scott

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