syssetup

This system was created to allow of easy recreation or restoration of a existing system. This is not a backup application, nor does it create a image in the sense of a full disk image. It creates a snapshot of the current system configuration and installed packages. Once this information is collected it is packaged into standalone self extracting restore archive. It does this by copying your /etc folder and generating a list of installed programs via the package manager on the system. These are then packaged into executable you can copy and run on another system. Great for duplicating a say a raspberry pi configuration. Works well for VPS systems as well, especially when you just need to do a clean reinstall.

Scripts

check.bash - checks if makeself is installed. Can be installed via normal methods or via this script os_probe.bash - checks if we are on a debian or arch based distro via looking for apt or pacman restore.*.bash - these are scripts specific to debian or arch syssetup.bash - The main program test.bash - Some file I was using to test something, you can ignore it

Plans

To add flatpak support for making it more usable for desktops. Also support for OpenWRT, because I want to use this on my router.

Notes Oct 7 2023

In theory we should have support for Debian based distros, Arch based distros and OpenWRT. This hasn't been throughly tested for the most part, but it should work. I'll test in depth as I spin up VMs and have some time test.