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That btrfs and snapper sound interesting. I know nothing about them though. Do you know of some article describing how you use it to revert to previous states o

That btrfs and snapper sound interesting. I know nothing about them though. Do you know of some article describing how you use it to revert to previous states of your machine?

CraigJPerry 3y ago
It’s not for tumbleweed but i thought this article was well written https://sysguides.com/install-fedora-38-with-snapshot-and-rollback-support/ https://sysguides.com/install-fedora-38-with-snapshot-and-ro...
tmtvl 3y ago
Basically what you do is you boot up your computer, enter the password for your encrypted drive, and when on the GRUB boot screen you can select "Filesystem Snapshots" and boot into one of those, which reverts most of your root partition to an earlier state. The Arch wiki has a decent article about Snapper: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper>, though note that the OpenSUSE installer makes it easy to set up the btrfs subvolumes.
- dizhn 3y ago
  I think it says " read only snapshots ". On tw anyway.
kergonath 3y ago
I don’t have a specific article, but it did save me a couple of times when Nvidia drivers updates borked the kernel, or X, or both. One line in the terminal to roll back to a stable state, it’s great.
dizhn 3y ago
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial When I first installed tw, i tested the snapshot functionality first. At the very least understand how it does not (by default) snapshot /home and how it takes an automatic snapshot after rpm (zypper) operations. Once there was a wifi issue that borked a lot of our machines and very few people actually knew how to rollback or had ever tried it before. A crisis situation is not a good time to test these things. This is especially an issue because as you'll see in the link above not all tw installs will have snapshot support. One major determinator is disk size. It won't get enabled with less than 20gb root space.

That btrfs and snapper sound interesting. I know nothing about them though. Do you know of some article describing how you use it to revert to previous states of your machine?

CraigJPerry 3y ago

It’s not for tumbleweed but i thought this article was well written https://sysguides.com/install-fedora-38-with-snapshot-and-rollback-support/ https://sysguides.com/install-fedora-38-with-snapshot-and-ro...

tmtvl 3y ago

Basically what you do is you boot up your computer, enter the password for your encrypted drive, and when on the GRUB boot screen you can select "Filesystem Snapshots" and boot into one of those, which reverts most of your root partition to an earlier state. The Arch wiki has a decent article about Snapper: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper>, though note that the OpenSUSE installer makes it easy to set up the btrfs subvolumes.

dizhn 3y ago
I think it says " read only snapshots ". On tw anyway.

kergonath 3y ago

I don’t have a specific article, but it did save me a couple of times when Nvidia drivers updates borked the kernel, or X, or both. One line in the terminal to roll back to a stable state, it’s great.

dizhn 3y ago

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial When I first installed tw, i tested the snapshot functionality first. At the very least understand how it does not (by default) snapshot /home and how it takes an automatic snapshot after rpm (zypper) operations. Once there was a wifi issue that borked a lot of our machines and very few people actually knew how to rollback or had ever tried it before. A crisis situation is not a good time to test these things. This is especially an issue because as you'll see in the link above not all tw installs will have snapshot support. One major determinator is disk size. It won't get enabled with less than 20gb root space.