Comment by gnull
15 hours ago
It's not guaranteed to be bit identical (the why of it is a can of worms), but it's identical enough for all practical purposes.
15 hours ago
It's not guaranteed to be bit identical (the why of it is a can of worms), but it's identical enough for all practical purposes.
At the same time it is significantly more "hardware-change" resilient, since the same backed up config file (minus perhaps some very system specific lines that you may or may not have) can bring up a functionally equivalent working system on quite distinct other hardware as well.