Re: Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-02 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2016-11-02 07:18, Ahmed Badr wrote: On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Alex Powell wrote: Taking a step back as well- there is also the possibility that you might not need snapshots I do need it for my root partition at least in the initial phase of setting things up and trying out different

Re: Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-02 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2016-11-02 07:25, Ahmed Badr wrote: On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: While all of the snapshots with a matching parent_uuid are snapshots of the same thing in linear time for btrfs, the tools may have their own added administration on top (like snapshot names, or di

Re: Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-02 Thread Ahmed Badr
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > While all of the snapshots with a matching parent_uuid are snapshots of > the same thing in linear time for btrfs, the tools may have their own > added administration on top (like snapshot names, or directories they're > placed in), whic

Re: Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-02 Thread Ahmed Badr
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Alex Powell wrote: > Taking a step back as well- there is also the possibility that you > might not need snapshots I do need it for my root partition at least in the initial phase of setting things up and trying out different software. Once the system is stable, I

Re: Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-02 Thread Ahmed Badr
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Btrfs tends to have scaling issues if you let the number of snapshots get > too high. Try to keep it under 300 snapshots per subvolume (combined > between all tools) if at all possible, and if your use-case makes it easy > enou

Re: Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-01 Thread Alex Powell
Hi All, Taking a step back as well- there is also the possibility that you might not need snapshots I say this as you're a noobie- like me! If you're a noobie, I assume you're not using it to host some massive Oracle DB and need all these features If you're using this for a home media server or s

Re: Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-01 Thread Duncan
Ahmed Badr posted on Wed, 02 Nov 2016 02:00:55 +0200 as excerpted: > Btrfs newbie here trying to figure out how to use it properly on Ubuntu > 16.04 server. > > I have root formated using Btrfs, and installed Snapper [...] I see Hans answered your direct question so I'll skip that, but one addi

Re: Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-01 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
On 11/02/2016 01:00 AM, Ahmed Badr wrote: > > Btrfs newbie here Congrats! > trying to figure out how to use it properly on Ubuntu > 16.04 server. > > I have root formated using Btrfs, and installed Snapper and everything > seems to works fine. I installed apt-btrfs-snapshot which takes snapshot

Snapper & apt-btrfs-snapshot on Ubuntu

2016-11-01 Thread Ahmed Badr
Hi all, Btrfs newbie here trying to figure out how to use it properly on Ubuntu 16.04 server. I have root formated using Btrfs, and installed Snapper and everything seems to works fine. I installed apt-btrfs-snapshot which takes snapshot before and after apt-get just like OpenSUSE/Zypper and that