On 18 November 2010 19:24, Chris Walker cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
Is it possible to take a snapshot of a running system rather in the way it's possible to do in things like VirtualBox?
I'm thinking of installing some software but am not sure that once installed, I will be able to back it out with leaving files everywhere. Hence the idea of a snapshot.
This reminds me of when I used to use Stow to do something like this.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GNU_Stow
Srdjan