saved to remembering btrfs snapshots
I want to setup snapshots but I don’t really understand how to do that properly yet in a way that lets me shoot the snapshots over to my smb storage like Apple’s Time Machine does.
A snapshot isn’t a backup so you can’t move it outside of the drive. It is literally just a change log.
| A snapshot isn’t a backup so you can’t move it outside of the drive
You can tho https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Send/receive
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Spent like a few hours learning about and setting up snapshots, only to never every use them lol. I guess I just don’t break my computer often enough nowadays. Copy-on-write is great tho, especially for making quick backups of a large directory structure before running that risky shell one-liner.
Me:
- make the snapshot after the system is already broken
- Break it more
- Don’t restore the snapshot because its old and you can fix it
They’re set up in Nobara by default, haven’t had to use them yet but every once in a while I see them in the journalctl and get a warm feeling.
