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Today I discovered Garuda's BTRFS assistant and it's a total game changer. (gitlab.com)
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Was looking at how to set up snapper on Fedora 39 and came across the ever knowledgable Stephens tech talks video. It does balance, setting up snapper, sub-volume management in a really cool GUI tool.

edit updated the link as the GitHub page was apparently ood, but it is in most repo's

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[-] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I didn't know it existed outside of Garuda. Thanks OP.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Same. I even use Garuda and I never actually touched that thing. It's all preconfigured and I just let it do it's thing.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Can this make a btrfs partition usable to timeshift?

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I don't know about timeshift but it appears to have a configuration tab for snapper.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I seen that. Does snapper have a easy gui for dummies to make snapshots?

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is that more so in something like Fedora/Opensuse

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

🥴 thanks

[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently btrfs assistant has a gui to create snapper snapshots. But there's also snapper-gui

[-] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 7 points 1 year ago

Thank you 😃

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Is there a difference between this and timshift/timeshift autosnap/grub-btrfs?

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Timeshift forces you to use a very specific layout of btrfs partitions or whatever those are called. On Fedora.for instance, unless you set them up manually, Timeshift will not work. Snapper isn't so picky.

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I never had to set it up. I use endeavour OS and all I did was choose "btrfs" in the installer. That's it. I just installed timeshift after that and ran it like normal. No issues. Installed auto snap and grub-btrfs and I'm in the races.

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