Thank you for MX snapshot!

[Green_Penguin]

I just wanted to post some gratitude for those who work on the MX snapshot utility! As I've been trying to learn more, and take MX more seriously as a daily driver, it's extremely helpful to be able to just create an iso snapshot whenever I'm about to do something wear my internal monologue is going, "I'm not so sure about this." Snapshots have already saved me headaches a couple of times Given how useful it is, and the fact that it's stayed MX specific, leads me to believe that it must have been a fair bit of work to develop or maintain. Thank you so much! The snapshot utility is one of those details that really sets MX apart.

[Tovian]

+1

[Artim]

Before I found MX, I used a utility called SystemBack that kinda-sorta does what MX-Snapshot does, offering the same options between "personal use" (with /home, docs, pics, music, etc intact), or "to share with others" with just the installed-apps and configurations. I still point people who prefer other Debian-based OSes to that very cool tool. But it's built into MX and along with LiveUSB-Maker, it's awesome.

[Green_Penguin]

Before I found MX, I used a utility called SystemBack that kinda-sorta does what MX-Snapshot does

Neat, I'm glad from a broader community perspective that somebody picked that backup, last I heard SystemBack was abandonware. That said, MXs Is a heck of a lot faster than the last version of SystemBack I used.

[heavy metal]

I just wanted to post some gratitude for those who work on the MX snapshot utility! As I've been trying to learn more, and take MX more seriously as a daily driver, it's extremely helpful to be able to just create an iso snapshot whenever I'm about to do something wear my internal monologue is going, "I'm not so sure about this." Snapshots have already saved me headaches a couple of times Given how useful it is, and the fact that it's stayed MX specific, leads me to believe that it must have been a fair bit of work to develop or maintain. Thank you so much! The snapshot utility is one of those details that really sets MX apart.

Yes, indeed, MX Linux snapshot is a great tool, AFAIK the only other Linux OS that has this feature is PCLinuxOS!

[operadude]

MX-SNAPSHOT

I use MX-Snapshot as part of my Backup Strategy:

Daily DATA LuckyBackups, across 4 removable drives & 1 "cloud".
Weekly Timeshift Snapshots
Monthly MX-Snapshots

As has been stated numerous times on the Forum: TEST YOUR BACKUPS

IIRC, MX-Snapshot is based (wholly?) on the antiX tool.

Ready to stand corrected, and eat humble-pie

(Admins, Devs, Moderators, etc. listening?)

[heavy metal]

+1

[heavy metal]

I just wanted to post some gratitude for those who work on the MX snapshot utility! As I've been trying to learn more, and take MX more seriously as a daily driver, it's extremely helpful to be able to just create an iso snapshot whenever I'm about to do something wear my internal monologue is going, "I'm not so sure about this." Snapshots have already saved me headaches a couple of times Given how useful it is, and the fact that it's stayed MX specific, leads me to believe that it must have been a fair bit of work to develop or maintain. Thank you so much! The snapshot utility is one of those details that really sets MX apart.

Yes, indeed, MX Linux snapshot is a great tool, AFAIK the only other Linux OS that has this feature is PCLinuxOS!

yes, AntiX has this feature too!

[heavy metal]

MX-SNAPSHOT

I use MX-Snapshot as part of my Backup Strategy:

Daily DATA LuckyBackups, across 4 removable drives & 1 "cloud".
Weekly Timeshift Snapshots
Monthly MX-Snapshots

As has been stated numerous times on the Forum: TEST YOUR BACKUPS

IIRC, MX-Snapshot is based (wholly?) on the antiX tool.

Ready to stand corrected, and eat humble-pie

(Admins, Devs, Moderators, etc. listening?)

Yeah, I think you're right, AntiX was the first debian derivative OS who had the snapshot tool AFAIK!

[heavy metal]

Yes, indeed, thanks to AntiX & MX developers for this amazing tool!