On 2024-08-06 20:49, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2024 20:28:44 CEST schreef Larry Len Rainey:
A snapshot is not a backup - drives fail and all data is lost. You show here that you did not read my message or do not know about btrfs send/receive. The latter is an actual valid method to backup / restore. I did not say that snapshot == backup. A good recent example of what a rollback can mean to a user was when user got hit with a broken PSU during upgrade. After replacing the PSU, the system was unaccessible at boot, rolling back ( via a USB boot ) returned it to a fully usable machine
I do not deny how marvellous thing are snapshots. I agree with that. Nevertheless, it has issues that for me are paramount: not being able to solve "mid/serious" problems without help, and not being able to do a restore from an rsync. Thus I keep things simple and reliable: ext4 for "/" and xfs for /home and /data. As you have seen, there are important distributions not using btrfs, and I am not the only user not to use btrfs. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)