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The biggest time save is in time spent recovering. It's so much faster to restore the entire system than to reinstall the OS, reconfigure the bootloader, resetu
by theossuary 3y ago
The biggest time save is in time spent recovering. It's so much faster to restore the entire system than to reinstall the OS, reconfigure the bootloader, resetup disk encryption, reconfigure user accounts, reinstall all software, manually reload configs, etc.
Or put it more directly, full disk backups are a great way to get RTO down.
- op00to 3y agoIn this case the author had to do arcane magick to restore his zfs snapshot. This wasn’t a routine raw dd restore.
- chromakode 3y agoAgreed. It was a large time investment that happened to pay off. If I ever have to do it again I'll be much faster. I hope that with wider ZFS adoption some of the routine tasks will be automated better in the future. I see no reason why in a couple years this couldn't be a mature fire and forget user experience.
- op00to 3y agoIf it can be done manually, it can be automated and made more reliable!