Is there any System restore point kind of thing available in Linux ?
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@mobeen said in Is there any System restore point kind of thing available in Linux ?:
I was looking for easy or GUI based option, and I think it's available for Ubuntu ?
Oh, is this a desktop?
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@mobeen said in Is there any System restore point kind of thing available in Linux ?:
And the main reason I want this kind of feature is to do experiments or nailing into linux more and restore if something went wrong
which may help in production systems also in future.Linux is not Windows. There is a reason that this kind of thing does not exist on Linux, because it really is not needed. It's a big deal on Windows because it is very much needed there. But you are looking at this the wrong way - you see Windows needing a "fix" for other deficiencies and then looking at Linux to see if it has that fix. Instead, you should be looking to see if it has those deficiencies.
Linux does not have the one way patching problem that Windows does. There is no need or real purpose to a system restore on Linux, therefore there isn't a simple mechanism for one.
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In the end, if something went wrong on Windows that was dramatic, the system restore is not how you recover, a backup and restore is. Same with Linux.
Short of that, Windows rolls you back to the restore point. On CentOS, you do the same with YUM, not a restore point.
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@scottalanmiller said in Is there any System restore point kind of thing available in Linux ?:
@mobeen said in Is there any System restore point kind of thing available in Linux ?:
I was looking for easy or GUI based option, and I think it's available for Ubuntu ?
Oh, is this a desktop?
It's CentOS server OS but it's on my personal laptop.
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Gotcha. There might be some graphical utilities for snapshotting. But really this is just not a thing that is needed on Linux. It's a fundamentally different Os than Windows and the idea of system restoration like Windows does would be weird.
