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Kali Unkaputtbar Brings File System Snapshots to Btrfs-Based Kali Linux Systems

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9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Offensive Security announced today Kali Unkaputtbar, a new feature for their Kali Linux ethical hacking and penetration testing GNU/Linux distribution that implements file system snapshots on bare metal.

If you ever wanted to have file system snapshots on your Kali Linux installation, now you can with Kali Unkaputtbar, a new feature that implements just that on all Kali Linux 2022.1 and later systems that use the Btrfs file system by default.

Kali Unkaputtbar implements automatic snapshots for APT installations or removals, automatic snapshots on every boot, automatic creation of Kali Linux specific Btrfs subvolume layouts, and adds a new boot menu in the GRUB bootloader to let users boot into specific snapshots in a read/write manner.

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