Re: Maximum time for offline updates?

[debian-user@howorth.org.uk]

Yvan Masson wrote:

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> 
> Indeed, in a perfect setup, system should make a snapshot before
> updates are applied (see 6. in systemd.offline-updates manpage, note
> that I have not heard it is done yet by any distribution by default),
> and revert the changes if the update fails. Anyway, being able to fix
> a system that has been broken by *online* updates is only relevant if
> the user has technical skills to do so.
> 
openSUSE does that by default, assuming you use their recommended
filesystem of btrfs. The snapper program takes a snapshot before any
update and again afterwards.

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