I come to SUSE after my Ubuntu goes down unnoticed and refuse to boot. Your tutorials are such a gift from heaven to me jumping into to SUSE. Tks alot for your dedication man!!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm really glad the tutorials have been helpful to you during your transition to openSUSE. It's always tough when a system goes down, but I'm happy you found a solution and that the content here could make the journey a bit smoother. If you have any questions or need help with anything as you explore openSUSE or SUSE Linux, don’t hesitate to reach out. Welcome to the *SUSE community, and happy computing!
Thank you so much for the kind words! 😊 I'm really glad the tutorial was helpful for you. It means a lot to know the effort is appreciated. If there's anything more you’d like to see, don’t hesitate to ask!
Great video, I'm happy that OpenSuse applyed that amazing feature by default. I'm daily driving Tumbleweed on my machines as only OS for desktops and many Leap instances for server applications. If anything goes wrong i.e. during update, then I can rollback to previous fully working snapshot. Nothing to add except one thing: snapshots are not backups. If anything will go wrong with firesystem or drive itself then snapshots won't help us.
Thank you for your comment and for sharing your experience with openSUSE! I completely agree-snapshots are an amazing feature that make Tumbleweed and Leap incredibly reliable, especially with their robust rollback capabilities. It's great to hear you're making full use of that on both your desktop and server environments! You’re absolutely right about snapshots not being a replacement for backups. While they’re fantastic for rolling back from software issues, hardware failure or filesystem corruption would render them useless if the storage itself is compromised. This is why having a solid backup strategy alongside snapshots is essential for full protection. Also, Snapshots are good to be backed up in case something happened. Thanks again for your input, and happy openSUSE'ing!
Is it possible to create a snapper configuration with snapshots on a disk that is formatted to btrfs however mounted through NFS and sitting on another machine?
Thanks for your question! Snapper relies heavily on the local Btrfs filesystem and its native snapshotting capabilities. Unfortunately, using Snapper to manage snapshots on a disk accessed through NFS is not possible because NFS abstracts the underlying filesystem, preventing direct interaction with Btrfs-specific features like snapshots. If you're working with a remote machine, I recommend creating and managing Btrfs snapshots directly on that machine instead. You can use tools like ssh to automate snapshot creation remotely or explore alternatives such as rsync or other backup tools to maintain versioned backups of the data across machines.
I come to SUSE after my Ubuntu goes down unnoticed and refuse to boot. Your tutorials are such a gift from heaven to me jumping into to SUSE.
Tks alot for your dedication man!!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm really glad the tutorials have been helpful to you during your transition to openSUSE. It's always tough when a system goes down, but I'm happy you found a solution and that the content here could make the journey a bit smoother. If you have any questions or need help with anything as you explore openSUSE or SUSE Linux, don’t hesitate to reach out. Welcome to the *SUSE community, and happy computing!
You're an angel for providing such a comprehensive tutorial and explanation. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the kind words! 😊 I'm really glad the tutorial was helpful for you. It means a lot to know the effort is appreciated. If there's anything more you’d like to see, don’t hesitate to ask!
Great video, I'm happy that OpenSuse applyed that amazing feature by default. I'm daily driving Tumbleweed on my machines as only OS for desktops and many Leap instances for server applications. If anything goes wrong i.e. during update, then I can rollback to previous fully working snapshot.
Nothing to add except one thing: snapshots are not backups. If anything will go wrong with firesystem or drive itself then snapshots won't help us.
Thank you for your comment and for sharing your experience with openSUSE! I completely agree-snapshots are an amazing feature that make Tumbleweed and Leap incredibly reliable, especially with their robust rollback capabilities. It's great to hear you're making full use of that on both your desktop and server environments!
You’re absolutely right about snapshots not being a replacement for backups. While they’re fantastic for rolling back from software issues, hardware failure or filesystem corruption would render them useless if the storage itself is compromised. This is why having a solid backup strategy alongside snapshots is essential for full protection.
Also, Snapshots are good to be backed up in case something happened.
Thanks again for your input, and happy openSUSE'ing!
Is it possible to create a snapper configuration with snapshots on a disk that is formatted to btrfs however mounted through NFS and sitting on another machine?
Thanks for your question! Snapper relies heavily on the local Btrfs filesystem and its native snapshotting capabilities. Unfortunately, using Snapper to manage snapshots on a disk accessed through NFS is not possible because NFS abstracts the underlying filesystem, preventing direct interaction with Btrfs-specific features like snapshots.
If you're working with a remote machine, I recommend creating and managing Btrfs snapshots directly on that machine instead. You can use tools like ssh to automate snapshot creation remotely or explore alternatives such as rsync or other backup tools to maintain versioned backups of the data across machines.