Security News > 2022 > March > Kali Linux on bare-metal gets snapshotting functionality

The Offensive Security team has released Kali Unkaputtbar, a new feature that allows Kali Linux installed on bare-metal to make system snapshots automatically, thus enabling users to roll back to a previous system state after a botched upgrade.

In German, "Unkaputtbar" means "Indestructible," and this new feature is meant to make life easier for those users who prefer bare-metal Kali installations.

" provides VM-like snapshots to bare metal, but even better as the system does it all for you," the team noted.

The new feature is easy to take advantage of: users have to install Kali Linux version 2022.1 or newer with btrfs as the file system, install some additional tools to make the use of the feature easy, and configure them.

Boot into a last known good snapshot if the last upgrade made the system otherwise unbootable.

More details on how to use Kali Unkaputtbar are available here.

News URL

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/03/11/kali-unkaputtbar/