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    What is your experience with btrfs snapshots? (lemmy.world)
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    [โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 39 points 5 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 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.