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Every god damn time! (infosec.pub)
submitted 10 months ago by 0x4E4F@infosec.pub to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 53 points 10 months ago (19 children)

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 πŸ˜”.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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?

[–] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can definitely do this with a few commands.

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

Awww man, thanks ☺️.

Good thing I love fiish, it's my default shell πŸ˜‰.

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