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Blog posts tagged
"snapshots"

Aaron Whitehouse
30 August 2024

Integrating the Ubuntu Snapshot Service into systems management and update tools

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu recently released a snapshot service to use the archive as it was at a point in history. This article explains how to integrate this into systems management or update tools. ...

Igor Ljubuncic
15 April 2021

Should you ever reinstall your Linux box? If so, how?

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Broadly speaking, the Linux community can be divided into two camps – those who upgrade their operating systems in-vivo, whenever there is an option to do so in their distro of choice, and those who install from scratch. As it happens, the former group also tends to rarely reinstall their system when problems occur, while ...

Igor Ljubuncic
7 March 2019

How to create snapshots of your snaps

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Data backups are arguably the most important part of one’s software setup. While many scenarios fall into the realm of if, data loss belongs in the when domain. Over time, every one of us will experience some kind of hardware failure, be it an optical disk, a hard disk or a lost phone. It is ...