Kali Unkaputtbar – a new feature on Kali Linux

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Kali Unkaputtbar

Have you ever wished you could travel back in time after deleting that important customer report or after installing a broken driver (Nvidia?) just before heading into a board meeting? Well, you better read on, because now you can!

From zero to hero in 30 seconds

All it takes is installing Kali Linux version 2022.1 or newer with btrfs as the file system and to enable snapshotting after installation and you will get:

• automatic snapshots with APT installations or removals
• automatic snapshots on every boot
• automatically created Kali Linux specific btrfs subvolume layout
• new boot menu allowing you to boot into snapshots
• ability to browse the file content of snapshots and copy files across
• perform diffs between snapshots and restore individual files

See for yourself what Kali Unkaputtbar can do.

Unkaputtbar features

Boot snapshot

Booting into snaphots from the GRUB boot menu:

Diff snapshots

Using snapper to generate diffs between snapshots:

Browse snapshots

You can even browse the content of snapshots:

Additional automatic snapshots

Configuring additional automatic snapshots such as of your home drive takes mere seconds:

Install UnkaOur Verdictputtbar

Download the latest image from here and enable automatic snapshots as described in Kali’s dedicated documentation. That page also contains all the essential information to take full advantage  of Kali Unkaputtbar.

If you have already Kali, just type:

apt-get install snapper

Our Verdict?

This feature is one of the most anticipated and needed for pen testers, bug bounty hunters, and the people who work with Kali Linux daily. A lot of times, due to the nature of how Debian and Kali work, you do get issues with tools, this is related to a lot of things, drivers, outdated libraries, developers not on the same page to updating their source code to work with the latest versions of Kali resulting in crashes and sometimes re-installing again all the tools, not only that but the custom API keys and configuration for each tool which takes a lot of hours and days to re-install re-configure again the machine. Unlike Cloud VPS based which you could use snapshots, this is on the OS level means it can work on any device that Kali supports. That includes Arm / Raspberry Pi / Normal Notebooks and Workstations and more.

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Source: www.kali.org

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