Btrfs and snapper. Only time I ever had to reload a snapshot was because of my own actions. I've been fortunate to never have any update related breaks. Maybe a couple services had hiccups, but never breaks.
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Timeshift has indeed saved my distro's ass a few times. But is not a silver bullet. In the end I keep most of my stuff on an external HD and in there a folder with some notes and data about my distro configuration. If he dies (and he did) I'll bring him back.
No sweat. I prefer to reinstall and start fresh every now and then anyway.
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xfs gang? π₯²
This is me!
It's not so crazy these days. In several years of running arch, only once has an update broken anything (and that's because I was messing around with virtual machines).
ROFL Like, this was me on other distros just using ext4, no timeshift (made manual backups though, not as much as I should've). Now, I am understanding the hype with btrfs, Snapshots, as they have saved my ass so much. Using Garuda Linux, BTW! Sometimes a machine doesn't matter so much so...I lived life dangerously, and paid for a particularly low cost for it.
Snapper is sooooo nice π€©.
Ridiculously easy to use and quickly get back into a working system! I used it first with openSUSE Tumbleweed, now I use and found it to be excellent.
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Been there, done that
This is me... IDGAF
I don't keep anything important on my primary daily driver. I keep it all on my NAS and that has backups.
I was one of them few years ago...
At least they're not waiting several months for accumulated updates! I've been told that's how you break an Arch system.
Not really. Might have to update the keychain first or update the package mirrors of it's a very long time but it's not a huge deal
pacman updates the keyring first now. Itβs gotten quite difficult to break Arch.
does btrfs finally work now?
I was introduced to it by a synology nas a decade ago, and it's my preferred fs. I wish proxmox supported it, my compute server had to go with ext4 since it's got one disk for the system, and one for the VMs, no redundancy. They say it's in 'tech preview' but most mainstream distros have had it for years now...
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I have ext4 and dont use a separate3 home partition but I use timeshift
That was me when I first started using Linux 10 years ago. I didnβt know any of this stuff, and most of it didnβt even fucking exit. Wing it and worry later. Moral of the story, I reinstalled several times a month. Lmao