@thwak
I decided 2.5 years ago that refracta was for me as I was doubtful about the future of remastersys so although I have been using SalineOS as my workhorse I have been using refracta to create installable ISO's.Bottom line: Of the 2 scripts, currently refractasnapshot is more evolved, more flexible, than saline-backup.
One of the last suggestions I made before Anthony went off line was to use wild cards in his excludes and he replied that he would have to thoroughly test them first before including them.
I'm not a technical guy but I understand the importance of what you are saying about salines excludes and suggest it would be worth posting them on the saline forums.
@fsmithred
We'll drop this as you already have your own way of doing things and I understand what you say about "without needing the hard drive space to hold a copy of the partition." as that was my thoughts first of all but now I find I'm using clone partitions.To clone a partition, I'd just use rsync.
I think I'm the only one who has mentioned partition labels and I hope I have not misled or wasted your time.
I always use labels to identify my partitions in gparted but I don't use labels in fstab for OS partitions, I only use a label in fstab for my data partition as I have a data partition on all my machines with a label of "data" it makes it easier to install snapshots from one machine to another using the same line in fstab.
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LABEL=data /home/user/data ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0
I'm deeply sorry if I have wasted any of your valuable time.
I've downloaded the beta script but when I've selected "use existing swap partition" and "Use UUID in fstab" I'm not getting the partition labels kept when I install, is it only with "Use labels in fstab" option that have the new label routines?
Tomorrow I'm going to install Refracta and try to put a working system together.