[Gllug] couple of quick questions (USB stick and backups)

[Mike Brodbelt]

salsaman wrote:

> Well, the instructions I read said to first go into single user mode:
> 
> init 1; exit
> 
> so I did this. At that runlevel hardly anything was running.
> 
> The only corruption I could get would be in log files and the like, and 
> for my purposes that is not really a problem.

I don't think that makes it safe - remounting read-only might. Using
Nix's snapshot suggestion should also be safe.

Mike
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