A colleague did a zypper dup of his Tumbleweed system a bit ago. Seems it borked his system. So he is using a read-only snapshot. I want to help him revert to the state before the backup. He has a standard Tumbleweed layout (initially installed in November, so surely using the current preferred layout). He has made no changes to the system since then. I have read the information related to this here: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/ch... Which is pretty good. Before I follow the advice contained there, I am just asking if this is what one should do: 1. Boot with a recent read-only snapshot. We are using the one just before the current non-functioning one. 2. Run: snapper rollback 3. Reboot into the default image That's it? If so, seems too easy. Which makes me suspicious... -- Roger Oberholtzer
Hi Roger, it actually is! That's why the system is so amazing! Safed me from broken or faulty updates! I think it even says what to do to recover after you've booted into that snapshot. Cheers, Bernd Am 29.03.23 um 08:44 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
A colleague did a zypper dup of his Tumbleweed system a bit ago. Seems it borked his system. So he is using a read-only snapshot. I want to help him revert to the state before the backup. He has a standard Tumbleweed layout (initially installed in November, so surely using the current preferred layout). He has made no changes to the system since then.
I have read the information related to this here:
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/ch...
Which is pretty good. Before I follow the advice contained there, I am just asking if this is what one should do:
1. Boot with a recent read-only snapshot. We are using the one just before the current non-functioning one. 2. Run: snapper rollback 3. Reboot into the default image
That's it? If so, seems too easy. Which makes me suspicious...
On 2023-03-29 08:52, Bernd Ritter wrote:
Hi Roger,
it actually is! That's why the system is so amazing! Safed me from broken or faulty updates!
I think it even says what to do to recover after you've booted into that snapshot.
Cheers, Bernd
Am 29.03.23 um 08:44 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
A colleague did a zypper dup of his Tumbleweed system a bit ago. Seems it borked his system. So he is using a read-only snapshot. I want to help him revert to the state before the backup. He has a standard Tumbleweed layout (initially installed in November, so surely using the current preferred layout). He has made no changes to the system since then.
I have read the information related to this here:
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/ch...
Which is pretty good. Before I follow the advice contained there, I am just asking if this is what one should do:
1. Boot with a recent read-only snapshot. We are using the one just before the current non-functioning one. 2. Run: snapper rollback 3. Reboot into the default image
That's it? If so, seems too easy. Which makes me suspicious...
As Bernd says. It's actually that simple. You can see it in action at Stephen's Tech Talks. I can recommend his videos. He covers many distros and features. A nice distraction. Remove /etc, reboot to a snapshot and do a rollback https://youtu.be/V2dKMfuqRnE?t=1701 -- /bengan
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Roger Oberholtzer