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I've been running basically the same Arch install since 2009: > zcat /var/log/pacman.log.1.gz-2018010214.backup | head [2009-02-23 18:14] installed filesystem
by prima-facie 5y ago
I've been running basically the same Arch install since 2009:
> zcat /var/log/pacman.log.1.gz-2018010214.backup | head
[2009-02-23 18:14] installed filesystem (2009.01-1)
You can hedge against any distro breaking by using a volume manager which allows snapshots of the root volume, or even better, creates these snapshots automatically before a distro upgrade. Both LVM and Btrfs can do this. I use LVM because I love boring tech.