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aconfmgr
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Arch noob
Establishing a backup strategy. I'm using BTRFS with snapper and a pacman hook that creates a new snapshot before each upgrade. With ext4 I used timeshift. Besides that, I save my arch configuration with aconfmgr and my files with borg
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New machine, same system: Top to bottom vs bottom to top
Since my last cloning I've setup aconfmgr and and systemd-homed. I've also been playing around with archinstall configs to partition the system with encryption how I like. In the future I'm planning to use archinstall and aconfmgr to setup a new system for me and then I'll copy over the backup of my home directory.
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Best way to "log" a re-creatable install?
try this https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr
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Rebuild a system
Have you tried aconfmgr? In addition to installing packages, it also tracks configurations in /etc and modified files.
- Alternatives to home-manager?
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New arch install and partitioning, what's the best way to make backups that doesn't take up a ton of disk space?
For my backup I keep files in my home directory synced with my NAS via syncthing. For my system backup I don't actually backup up my system, I configure my system via aconfmgr and that config is stored in my home directory and synced to my NAS. Using aconfmgr to "backup" my system is extremely space effecient, my aconfmgr config is only 1.7 MB.
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is there a good way to synchronize the system between different machines?
aconfmgr (in AUR) can be used to save and restore system configurations and installed packages. For user configuration you can use a dotfile manager like chezmoi (in repo).
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Backup of system and package settings
I know you prefer backing up manually, but aconfmgr might be for you.
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What do most people forget to do on a new install that's important?
To get something closer to nix on arch I like to use aconfmgr.
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Is there anything similar to Arch's aconfmgr for Gentoo? A program that can track, manage and restore your Gentoo configuration?
For those who are not familiar with Arch's aconfmgr, well I have not used it before but just saw it in a post. But it seems to be a configuration manager for Arch. It tracks, manages, and restores your Arch Linux OS configuration.
nvd
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First post, here's my home lab and how I use it every day (running Proxmox and NixOS)
And this repo:https://gitlab.com/khumba/nvd
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The Curse of NixOS
There's nothing there that needs flakes (an experimental feature which people should not enable without understanding the implications). You could build a system derivation and run a diff against /run/current-system on it.
For what it's worth, nix-diff has very verbose output (it literally diffs everything that is different in the inputs & outputs). A slightly nicer way to diff systems is nvd[0] (example output[1]) which only shows version changes and added/removed packages.
[0]: https://gitlab.com/khumba/nvd
[1]: https://deploys.tvl.fyi/diff/4xmyvkr9nw0cwkn5q38p0cfc58x3jdy...
- Nix/NixOS package version diff tool
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Can I see what packages have been updated?
And it uses https://gitlab.com/khumba/nvd to diff the revisions
What are some alternatives?
alis - Arch Linux Install Script (or alis, also known as the Arch Linux executable installation guide and wiki) installs an unattended, automated and customized Arch Linux system.
nix-config - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-config
pacreport.d - Known ghost files for Arch Linux
jk - Configuration as Code with ECMAScript
neovim-nightly-overlay - [maintainer=@Kranzes]
nixos-config - Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
nix-fpga-tools
nix-helpers - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-helpers.git
nix-ld - Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
nixpkgs-config - ~/.config/nixpkgs