# Btrfs Assistant 1.0 is coming, testers needed

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**Created:** [March 28, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/btrfs-assistant-1-0-is-coming-testers-needed/25421 "2022-03-28T01:12:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![FishMonkeh](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@FishMonkeh](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/FishMonkeh)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/btrfs-assistant-1-0-is-coming-testers-needed/25421/232 "2022-07-21T13:19:39Z")

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These are steps I had to take to get it working, all copied from the thread above. Hopefully it will help more nubs like myself!

> Install snap-pac, snapper, grub-btrfs and btrfs-assistant
> 
> Open Btrfs Assistant  
> Switch to the “Snapper Settings” tab  
> Click on the “New Config” button  
> Name the config “root” and choose / as the mountpoint  
> Click the “Save Config” button
> 
> Set the retention limits you want. In particular you probably want to lower the amount of “Number” snapshots that are retained. These are the snapshots that are taken when pacman runs. It takes 2 snapshots in each run so something like 10 is probably a more reasonable number. That will give you 5 pacman runs. The timeline settings are entirely left to your preferences.
> 
> Select the checkboxes for snapper-timeline and snapper-cleanup and click the “Apply” button to the right of the checkboxes.
> 
> Add support for booting off read-only snapshots  
> Edit  
> `/etc/mkinitcpio.conf` and add `grub-btrfs-overlayfs` to the end of the HOOKS section  
> Rebuild your initrams with `sudo mkinitcpio -P`
> 
> Make sure the snapshots are added to the grub menu. There are two easy ways to do this. Only pick one of them  
> Enable the `grub-btrfs.path systemd unit`
> 
> Create a file with the following contents at `/etc/systemd/system/grub-btrfs.path`
> 
> ```auto
> [Unit]
> Description=Monitors for new snapshots
> 
> [Path]
> PathModified=/.snapshots
> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> 
> ```
> 
> Then type
> 
> ```auto
> sudo systemctl daemon-reload
> sudo systemctl reenable --now grub-btrfs.path
> 
> ```
> 
> remake grub.cfg
> 
> ```auto
> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> 
> ```

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