Sock Puppet Society@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day agoA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.message-squaremessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1231arrow-down1message-squareA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.Sock Puppet Society@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square70fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·23 hours agoSnapshots are one of the features of copy on write filesystems like ZFS or btrfs. It looks like Ubuntu has btrfs support, so you could do things like configure the package manager to automatically snapshot before a system upgrade. https://blackstewie.com/posts/install-ubuntu-24.04-with-proper-btrfs-setup/ That looks like a current guide for setting it up
Snapshots are one of the features of copy on write filesystems like ZFS or btrfs.
It looks like Ubuntu has btrfs support, so you could do things like configure the package manager to automatically snapshot before a system upgrade.
https://blackstewie.com/posts/install-ubuntu-24.04-with-proper-btrfs-setup/
That looks like a current guide for setting it up
Thank you for sharing!