Choosing the Right NixOS Generation Rollback Strategy for Production
Manage NixOS generations safely in production: choose between automatic GC, manual cleanup, or flake‑based builds, and learn how to validate rollbacks with systemd‑boot.
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nixosNixOS Generations: Making a Broken System Update a Rollback, Not an Outage
NixOS makes a bad configuration change recoverable by keeping the previous system generation bootable. Here is how generations work, a worked SSH/user example, and the limits of rollback.