Hi Dave, 24:30 now the command is systemctl enable --now grub-btrfsd if anyone is having a problem at this step. Btw your guide helped me a lot, so thank you very much!
Wow...what an amazing video-tutorial, great and explained in detail 🤩 I'm not on arch and my english is rather bad than good, but these explanations are very very helpfull and understandable. Thanks very much. Keep it up! 👌👍🙏👏
Hello everyone! I had a thought regarding the switchsnaprotorw workaround for booting into the read-only snapshots. I understand that you (and also myself ;) ) just want to grab the snapshot from grub and boot into a working OS to roll back to the unbroken environment. But in the event that you break your system, could you also boot an arch iso and chroot into the broken OS and use the rollback feature from there? And thanks Dave for this very nice series. I've learnt a lot and I'm really tempted to switch and try arch!
Hey Dave, I’m an application developer primarily on macOS and this has been helpful as I’ve thought about trying to transition partly to Linux. I had an off-topic question: I see you’re using Figma, which I’ve also been using in my work. Has the Adobe acquisition affected your opinion on the tool at all? Have you thought about any alternatives? I’ve tried a couple but haven’t been as happy as I have with Figma.
Honestly I design MOSTLY in code these days. I'm not excited about Adobe owning them, but there's not much else out there that is browser based. Penpot is an OSS alternative you might be interested in. It's a clone for the most part.
Hi Dave, I'm plan to take a snapshot and use it as a base, therefore I don't want it to get deleted by the snapper cleanup, is there anyway to keep the snapshot forever
Hey Dave, thanks so much for these videos. I just installed arch for the first time this weekend and have been following along with your videos. On this one, though, I'm getting an error when trying to restore a snapshot: ERROR - [BtrfsUtilError 7 Errno 2] Could not open: No such file or directory: '/btrfsroot/@.snapshots/29/snapshot' -> '/btrfsroot/@' Any idea what the cause here could be?
Did everything the way you did but I can’t see the third option while rebooting i mean the snapshots! My grub menu is different and there is no advance options for Linux there.
If you only have a limited number of snapshots (say, 50), won't snap-pac wipe them all out basically every time you update a handful of apps (basically once per week) that amounts to 25 or more packages? 25 packages * 2 snapshots per package = your entire snapshot history gone...? Seems like it defeats the purpose of snapper.
The beautiful thing about btrfs after one really learns how to install it correctly with all the subvols and not have them on the root subvols learning it on vanilla Arch following the wiki to the T one will never have to back the home because @home is all there it's not part of root of anything ever goes way wrong dual boot it with any Linux distro and mount the old system from the new dual is copy your home to any USB then you can rid the old and expand the system after deleting the first system run grub install again and then extract your files from the USB battabing battaboom
Hello, Dave. Thank you for making such an educational and detailed video. I tried it in Arch, but Arch is too difficult for me, so I followed this (th-cam.com/video/o_FftGkK7iY/w-d-xo.html) step-by-step tutorial on btrfs and snapshot rollback, and it works flawlessly. However, it is only for Fedora. Anyway, thank you; I've just subscribed.
Hi Dave, 24:30 now the command is systemctl enable --now grub-btrfsd if anyone is having a problem at this step. Btw your guide helped me a lot, so thank you very much!
Please make sure to check the status of grab-btrfsd, as for me I did not have inotify-tools installed and the service failed to start :)
this gives you a piece of mind if something goes wrong you can just dont waste time to fix it and rollback.
Wow...what an amazing video-tutorial, great and explained in detail 🤩 I'm not on arch and my english is rather bad than good, but these explanations are very very helpfull and understandable. Thanks very much. Keep it up! 👌👍🙏👏
This was clear and helpful presentation. Thank you.
Hello everyone!
I had a thought regarding the switchsnaprotorw workaround for booting into the read-only snapshots. I understand that you (and also myself ;) ) just want to grab the snapshot from grub and boot into a working OS to roll back to the unbroken environment.
But in the event that you break your system, could you also boot an arch iso and chroot into the broken OS and use the rollback feature from there?
And thanks Dave for this very nice series. I've learnt a lot and I'm really tempted to switch and try arch!
Hey Dave, I’m an application developer primarily on macOS and this has been helpful as I’ve thought about trying to transition partly to Linux.
I had an off-topic question: I see you’re using Figma, which I’ve also been using in my work. Has the Adobe acquisition affected your opinion on the tool at all? Have you thought about any alternatives? I’ve tried a couple but haven’t been as happy as I have with Figma.
Honestly I design MOSTLY in code these days. I'm not excited about Adobe owning them, but there's not much else out there that is browser based. Penpot is an OSS alternative you might be interested in. It's a clone for the most part.
Hi Dave, I'm plan to take a snapshot and use it as a base, therefore I don't want it to get deleted by the snapper cleanup, is there anyway to keep the snapshot forever
Hey Dave, thanks so much for these videos. I just installed arch for the first time this weekend and have been following along with your videos. On this one, though, I'm getting an error when trying to restore a snapshot:
ERROR - [BtrfsUtilError 7 Errno 2] Could not open: No such file or directory: '/btrfsroot/@.snapshots/29/snapshot' -> '/btrfsroot/@'
Any idea what the cause here could be?
Thanks for these Dave
Reminder about fish shell in arch is one has to remember to install man-pages
Did everything the way you did but I can’t see the third option while rebooting i mean the snapshots! My grub menu is different and there is no advance options for Linux there.
Excellent. Just subbed!
For everyone in the future, you may run into a pacman db lock. Simply remove the lock file and you're good to go again!
If you only have a limited number of snapshots (say, 50), won't snap-pac wipe them all out basically every time you update a handful of apps (basically once per week) that amounts to 25 or more packages? 25 packages * 2 snapshots per package = your entire snapshot history gone...? Seems like it defeats the purpose of snapper.
It really depends upon your workflow. I mostly use snapshots to prevent the dreaded... oh no, I installed something, and on reboot my system broke.
The beautiful thing about btrfs after one really learns how to install it correctly with all the subvols and not have them on the root subvols learning it on vanilla Arch following the wiki to the T one will never have to back the home because @home is all there it's not part of root of anything ever goes way wrong dual boot it with any Linux distro and mount the old system from the new dual is copy your home to any USB then you can rid the old and expand the system after deleting the first system run grub install again and then extract your files from the USB battabing battaboom
Hello, Dave. Thank you for making such an educational and detailed video. I tried it in Arch, but Arch is too difficult for me, so I followed this (th-cam.com/video/o_FftGkK7iY/w-d-xo.html) step-by-step tutorial on btrfs and snapshot rollback, and it works flawlessly. However, it is only for Fedora. Anyway, thank you; I've just subscribed.