While I agree snapper (what CachyOS uses) I very useful, it is important to draw a distinction between snapshots (snapper) and a proper backup tool (borg or restic). Snapshots are usually stored on the same drive, so in the event of a drive failure/corruption you are still very fucked. Proper backup programs also have other important features, like the ability to select remote locations, setup encryption, etc. DO NOT rely on snapper to (always) save your ass.
That being said, I fucking love snapper and it was the main feature I was missing from openSUSE.
While the distinction can be important, the snapshots from right before the update are exactly what you want in this case over some actual but always somewhat outdated real backup
It should be illegal to use pacman without pacman-contrib installed for checkupdates (no risk of partial upgrades) and for comparing and merging .pacnew-files with pacdiff…
RIP. Time to pull out the backup, amiright?
right… the backup…
The backup specifically created for recovery…
The recovery backup…
Designed to backup the recovery…:
That backup?
It turned into a Llama 8 billion parameter didn’t it?
Recovery’s backup
Blessed be CachyOS for setting that shit up for me automatically.
While I agree snapper (what CachyOS uses) I very useful, it is important to draw a distinction between snapshots (snapper) and a proper backup tool (borg or restic). Snapshots are usually stored on the same drive, so in the event of a drive failure/corruption you are still very fucked. Proper backup programs also have other important features, like the ability to select remote locations, setup encryption, etc. DO NOT rely on snapper to (always) save your ass.
That being said, I fucking love snapper and it was the main feature I was missing from openSUSE.
While the distinction can be important, the snapshots from right before the update are exactly what you want in this case over some actual but always somewhat outdated real backup
Snapper can save you from OS destruction, not disk destruction.
Distro hopped recently. Loving it.
Now I get to say “I use Arch, btw” while still having nfi what I’m doing.
I like diving into the deep end and drown a few times too.
Have you heard of .pacnew files yet?
It should be illegal to use pacman without
pacman-contribinstalled forcheckupdates(no risk of partial upgrades) and for comparing and merging.pacnew-files withpacdiff…It was today when I first heard of it!
Using Arch for ~7 years or so! Both servers and desktops. Always just manually
vimdiffed things.And I only recently learned that a separate
vimdiffcommand exists (not that it makes a difference overvim -d)…https://youtu.be/gUzyu8qVNq0