Recommended Btrfs Assistant configuration

[shuvashish76]

@dalto

Don’t use snap-pac for those snapshots, just take them on a schedule.

So at this point your suggestion is to completely remove that package?

sudo pacman -Rns snap-pac

The reason I installed it because Eric Dubois mentioned in some EOS + Btrfs videos. https://github.com/erikdubois/arcolinux-nemesis/blob/master/AUR/install-snapper.sh (I installed as pacman though)

They also installed snapper-tools and snapper-support but I didn’t because of your this comment.

@dalto

I don’t recommend using *-git packages unless absolutely needed because you are essentially testing development code in that case. For most people snap-pac is in the repos and will work for most people.

@SenseiR6

yay -S btrfs-assistant
yay -S snapper-tools

For most use cases, it should be sufficient to install either snapper-tools or btrfs-assistant since they have a tremendous amount of overlap.

@SenseiR6

yay -S snapper-support

I personally think it is better to set this up yourself instead of installing snapper-support. I don’t see much value in installing the custom path unit anymore and since we use dracut all the mkinitcpio stuff in there has no benefit