Been using it on a fedora workstation and a Debian server for 2 years and it has been stable and amazing for backups and regressions. So fast and easy to use. I use timeshift to handle organizing and scheduled backups.
FWIW, I set up these distros to separate my home directory from the OS, so backups aren’t clogged with random files in my /home directory. I use Pika Backup to handle the /home directories to a separate backup site.
It’s basically automated, reliable, and sooo fast. Love it.
The FS feature is great, it’s just cumbersome to use without a tool.
Snapper works well for a local backup like history both against botched updates and accidental deletion, but eats up the free space with the default settings.
Timeshift is an easy to use GUI but doesn’t support non-default partitions.
Also the quota support had a nasty side effect: freezing the whole system on snapshot deletion.
I don’t now how to use them but have btrfs snapshots set up by default on SUSE nonetheless
But It’s just a corrupt driver dude, I know I can fix it.
Very good. Saved me a couple of times. It’s a really hassle free way of preventing update fuckery
Snapshots are definitely a hit or miss with me. I nearly never use them, but when I need to recover a file it’s awesome. The only system related problem I had with Nvidia drivers but it was actually better to reinstall so it does all the install configuration itself
Although the most problems I had with it is backup of data. I tend to hoard too much
Absolutely amazing. Been daily driving with Arch and its such a breeze to roll back in case of problems.
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.
They work.
Missed previous highway exit:
Use Debian stable / Ubuntu LTS
I’ve been using snapshots for a couple of years. So far I’ve only had to restore a snapshot once, but it and it worked fine. The snapshots are created almost instantly and they don’t use much disk space unless a lot of stuff has been changed.
It’s awesome! The easiest way you can try it out is with Linux Mint and BtrFS and TimeShift utility
It’s saved my ass quite a few times because for some reason on my old laptop updating the Nvidia driver from GUI would completely fuck the system
I just use snapshots for taking backups. This ensures that I get a consistent state when the backup occurs. It seems to work well for that.
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.
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