I’ve been reading you should use Snapper. I looked before I updated from 15.6 to 16, but didn’t seem to have it installed even then, though I did have something that looked like it in YaST.

Now in 16, I also can’t find Snapper and I don’t seem to have the general interface of YaST anymore either. Just some separate tools, but not the snapshot one.

Is Snapper something you can download? I previously installed Timeshift because I went to OpenSuse 15.6 from Mint. I didn’t know there was already something installed that could do this, and as Timeshift is what’s used in Mint, I just downloaded that. Can I just use Timeshift?

  • villager@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    It is setup out of the box, run snapper list as root and you should see the your current snapshots. But you do not need to do anything as snapper is configured to take snapshots before and after a transaction.

    The docs have not been updated for 16 so ignore all mentions or commands referencing yast.

    And remember that this is not a backup solutions in the taditional sense, so please make proper backups of your important data.

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      3 days ago

      Ah, alright then. I thought I could use YaST’s GUI, but then I just need to do it using the terminal.

      Isn’t it possible to make a manual snapshot?