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What is your experience with btrfs snapshots? (lemmy.world)
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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

I upgraded 3 major versions of Devuan with a snapshot between each upgrade, and I have a script running doing hourly/daily/weekly snapshots.

The only hassle was updating grub to boot on the new snapshot, while still being able to boot the old, I had to dig up a boot USB when I messed it up.