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spicybright on Jan 29, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administra...

> As a practical goal, you should be able to recreate your host with a single Bash script.

I think this is ideal, but I've yet to be able to do this or see a solid example.

At my old job I had to do exactly this, and it was really hard to get things right.

I'm much more seasoned now, but I still don't think I could do it lol

DenseComet on Jan 29, 2022 [–]

I've done this with Nixos. Bash and most other tools are too brittle to get the system back to the same exact state.

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