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Is there a way to automatically take a btrfs snapshot prior to upgrading? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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I've seen some tools that do things like take snapshots periodically and ones that add snapshots to grub, but not this specifically. Does something exist?

This will probably be on EndeavourOS, not Arch directly, if it matters.

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[–] jul@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

I'm also on EndeavourOS and used this tutorial to do exactly that.

All you should have to do is

yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant