Timeshift works only with BTRFS subvolumes, thus, if you wanna have backups (snapshots), you have to have subvolumes and not install in the root of a BTRFS filesystem 😔.
That’s only to backup/rollback the root though, right? If one’s looking to backup - say - their home dir, they can just recreate the home as a subvolume without reinstalling the system. Or am I mistaken?
Timeshift works only with BTRFS subvolumes, thus, if you wanna have backups (snapshots), you have to have subvolumes and not install in the root of a BTRFS filesystem 😔.
That’s only to backup/rollback the root though, right? If one’s looking to backup - say - their home dir, they can just recreate the home as a subvolume without reinstalling the system. Or am I mistaken?
You can definitely do this with a few commands.
https://github.com/raldone01/config_fish/blob/main/tdcff_functions/btrfs_folder_to_subvol.fish
Because I often forget to do it I wrote a little helper script.
This file can be run or sourced and only depends on btrfs-progs and fish.
Awww man, thanks ☺️.
Good thing I love fiish, it’s my default shell 😉.
Yes, you can just set it to mount a, let’s say @home, subvolume to /home and that’s that, done.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Oh okey so if I have Snapper already, nothing I need to worry about?