Is the conversion of the EXT4/Timeshift to BTRFS/Assitant/Snapper is easy-peasy or the risk to mess up my EOS is high?
Please share your experience and/or feedback and recommendation.=
Thanks
Converting an existing filesystem from ext4 to btrfs is possible but it is fraught with peril and requires lots of free disk space.
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If, for some reason, I wanted to leave EXT4 in favor of BTRFS, I’d just do a clean install of EndeavourOS.
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Do you have a way to re-install all the packages and more importantly all configurations?
1 900 MBytes 40% full for / and 100 Mbytes for /efi
No. I just start from scratch. I’ve done it before, I’m sure I’ll do it again. Apps are easy, just reinstall them. Configs? All I have are some theming Configs and maybe fastfetch and Kitty and a few apps like DeaDBeef. Again, I just start all over.
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Backing up and restoring the contents of your user directory ( ~/ ) will backup and restore most if not all of your data and application configs.
Generally I’m broad with the backup, but selective about the restore, as this is also an opportunity to clean house.
What will be missed from that, are system level configs that are in /etc, and any data areas you’ve set up yourself, eg: /myRadData.
As for packages, as @UncleSpellbinder mentioned, these are easy to re-install. You could easily collect a list of all explicitly installed apps and then re-install them, but you risk installing things that are actually not really needed in a fresh install, so I wouldn’t recommend that.
Re-installing your needed apps from memory is a pretty trivial thing. If you forget something and go to use it later, just install it then, it’s no big deal.
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For packages even if i agree with the above posts about re-installing only what you need when you need it, it can be useful to store a list of installed packages with pacman -Qe.
Just for that one time in six month where you’ll ask youself “Damn, what was that app i used for this ? can’t remember the name” . (You can just pipe it into a txt pacman -Qe | awk '{print $1}' > packages.txt)
As for config files there are multiple choices, from manual copy to stow, dotbare, chezmoi … there are so many options to choose from. (Personally i really like the convenience of Stow)
If you are using KDE, you can use @cscs amazing tool, Transfuse to backup your DE config :
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