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Kopia does not 'image' your whole machine. A real shame imaging is the time saving component if a system is not recoverable. People want to get their systems u
by FloatArtifact 4y ago
Kopia does not 'image' your whole machine.
A real shame imaging is the time saving component if a system is not recoverable. People want to get their systems up and running as fast as possible.
A combination of imaging and file back up is the best way to do that. For now I'll stick with http://www.urbackup.org/ http://www.urbackup.org/
- prmoustache 4y agoIt takes 20minutes to reinstall an OS these days, and only 2 to boot a livecd from which you can start working if you need a system asap. It is rare that you need all your apps installed and configured at the minute 0 in most people situations. I contemplated using puppet or ansible a long time ago but realized later on that just synching the output of your package manager list (rpm -qa) + all your .config files in a repo combined + having all my ssh keys in a password manager was enough to reconstruct a system very quickly without the need of imaging.
- FloatArtifact 4y agoYou're right installing an OS is very fast and that's not the problem. It's rare that people don't need their applications installed and configured after a recovery? I completely disagree in this respect for a desktop OS with applications. People want their system exactly how it was before a catastrophic event. When do they want it? As soon as possible. They don't always remember how it was configured but just expect the end result to be as it was before a recovery. Using tools like Puppet and Ansible are needlessly complex for the everyday end user when a simple system restore from an image can get them back up and running.