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What is your experience with btrfs snapshots? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are set up automatically on OpenSUSE and make a new snapshot before and after every program installation, update and removal. Awesome for general peace of mind and especially when you're up to strange shenanigans.

[โ€“] aleph@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Also, for people on distros that don't have an OOTB solution like OpenSUSE have, I recommend snapper and btrfs-assistant. You just install both packages, open the assistant GUI and create a profile for your root partition.

You can then also install a snapper plugin for your package manager, if one exists (I know DNF and pacman have one), which automatically take pre/post snapshots like OpenSUSE does, so you can quickly roll back if something goes wrong after a particular update/install/removal.

I've been using the above with EndeavourOS for a year now and it's come in very handy on a couple of occasions.