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#182

A number of things :wink:

  • The <> means ā€œsomething goes hereā€. They should be omitted from the command
  • You canā€™t have a space after the comma.
  • @ isnā€™t a snapshot. You need to tell it which snapshot you want to restore.

Basically, you just copy and paste one of those strings from your output. They are already formatted correctly.

#183

no luck :frowning:

I pasted sudo btrfs-assistant -r @58Sun Jun 19 20:00:01 2022single@/.snapshots/58/snapshot,cda3e3f6-4450-455e-9fd8-ae48d27675a8

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#184

try this:

sudo btrfs-assistant -r @/.snapshots/58/snapshot,cda3e3f6-4450-455e-9fd8-ae48d27675a8

Description:

  • subvolume: @/.snapshots/58/snapshot
  • UUID: cda3e3f6-4450-455e-9fd8-ae48d27675a8
#185

Try this - sudo btrfs-assistant -r @/.snapshots/58/snapshot,cda3e3f6-4450-455e-9fd8-ae48d27675a8

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#186

worked!!!

I had date in there. silly me.

thank you!

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#187

Try using different btrfs commands as given btrfs man pages to get more familiar with different operations that are performed by btrfs tools

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#188

last question - what is the ā€œsnapper boot enabledā€ in the menu of the BTRFS-Assistant app?

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Appreciate all the help!

#189

That enables the systemd service that takes snapshots on boot.

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#190

Thank you. That explains it.

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#191

Hi can confirm also works on manjaro

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#192

Welcoming @stormschip to :enos_flag: Enjoy.

#193

@dalto Hi Dalto, I had a quick question.

Iā€™ve chosen to retain 3 snapshots but I donā€™t think its working. Here is a list of snapshots and my settings.

How else can I limit the number of snapshots saved?

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#194

When did you set that to 3?

#195

Just within the app when I installed it.

You can see 3 snapshots in the 2nd screenshot

Or is that setting just for timeline ?

#196

Can you share the output of systemctl list-timers

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#198

It looks like the timer hasnā€™t run but is about to run any minute.

Check in 2 minutes and see if it cleans up the snapshots

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#199

ahha it actually worked. donā€™t know what happened. but I see 5 in the list. I was expecting 3

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#200

One of them is a timeline snapshot from when you had those enabled. You will probably have to delete that one manually.

The other ones are probably too new. There is a minimum time in the config.

That being said, retaining 3 number snapshots makes very little sense.

For one thing, recent snapshots take up almost no space so aggressively pruning them has very little value.

Even if that wasnā€™t the case snap-pac takes snapshots before and after each pacman operation. Saving 3 means you have the one before and after the most recent operation and the one after the prior operation. I would recommend saving at least 6

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#201

thanks for the explanation Dalto. makes sense. I will update to 6.

you are right about timeline snapshot. I had it enabled and now its disabled.

:pray:t4:

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