Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-04 Thread hw
On Mon, 2023-10-02 at 21:33 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM hw wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Hello! I'm not going into much detail but maybe I can guide you to > better be able to find what you want. Hi, like I said, my idea was to take a snapshot of the root file

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-02 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM hw wrote: > > Hi, Hello! I'm not going into much detail but maybe I can guide you to better be able to find what you want. > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous

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2023-10-02 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Try ext4 All the best Keith BAINBRIDGE +61 (0)447 667 468 keithr...@gmail.com UTC + 10 >From my Apad -- Forwarded message - From: Keith Bainbridge Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023, 20:32 Subject: Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-02 Thread Keith Bainbridge
I use timeshift for this. It claims to use btrfs as an option. I've only used rsync on extra, and that has saved my bacon a few times All the best Keith BAINBRIDGE +61 (0)447 667 468 keithr...@gmail.com UTC + 10 >From my Apad On Sun, 1 Oct 2023, 15:10 hw, wrote: > Hi, > > with btrfs, how

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-01 Thread hw
On Sun, 2023-10-01 at 10:51 +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > hw wrote: > > Hi, > > > > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous > > state if necessary. > > > > There doesn't seem to be

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-01 Thread debian-user
hw wrote: > Hi, > > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous > state if necessary. > > There doesn't seem to be a command to create snapshots but only > subvolumes? How does a subvolume turn into

btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-09-30 Thread hw
Hi, with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous state if necessary. There doesn't seem to be a command to create snapshots but only subvolumes? How does a subvolume turn into a snapshot? (The root file