Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>
>> Why would you want to restore at boot time? If your hardware is so bad
>> that a total restore is required every time you boot, you should spend
>> your time getting the hardware fixed.
>>
>> As a user, I would find having my files all restored to some time in the
>> past quite intolerable. It would mean that nothing I did between reboots
>> would, in fact, have been done.
>>
>> What is the real problem you are trying to solve?
>
>
> This is extremely common in computing cluster machines where user's do
> not *have* local home directories, and all software should be
> re-installed regularly to prevent people leaving littls packages or
> messed up configurations for each other.
>
I never heard of such a thing. If a user has no local home directory,
how do people leave little packages for a user? Surely the ordinary
users are not in a position to create home directories on the local
machine for other users (or even themselves). If I understand the
situation you describe, I would assume you set it up so no local files
of any kind can be created (except by the super user), so local users
cannot cause any problems like this.

Anyone screwing around would have to do it on the remote file server,
and that should be set up so users can affect only their own files.

What am I missing?

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