Making a backup?

Edward1978

Is there a way to make a .ISO of my current set up & BTW how do I boot to a snapshot?

Robin

In GhostBSD a "snapshot" is called a boot environment and it does not include your personal stuff (docs, pics, videos, etc). Back those up separately. At reboot, you can choose an earlier BE (boot environment).

Edward1978

Robin So, no way to make your installed OS a .ISO that you can liveboot or/&install?

Robin

There's an app called iso master but offers a way to remaster an existing iso b y adding and deleting stuff. It does not make a bootable copy of your existing system. As far as I know the only BSD that offers something like that is meant to be used as a portable OS on a USB stick with persistence. It's called nomadbsd. But the present iso doesn't include a lot of software most people need (like a word processor for example). I suppose you can install it, so I've heard, or install apps on it while "live" and make it persistent.

Edward1978

Robin Thanks, I tried Nomad. It was sslllooowww on this sys. It is a fairly new one too. It was like 486 slow, not sure why.

Robin

I hear it used to be really snappy back when it was Openbox and Tint2. It even had LibreOffice and all kinds of great software back then. Now it doesn't have a word-processor at all (you would think a portable OS would at least have some kind of ability to do word processing), and since they switched to Xfce, there wasn't room for the great software that came with Nomad "back in the day." Yes, it's semi-persistent (if you can get that to actually work) and the idea of it is great. But I basically did the same thing with MX-Linux's tools that let you make a copy of your existing system (including all your files and settings if you wish) and write it to a USB stick. Perfect portability, like Nomad is supposedly aiming for.