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That's fantastic. That means they'll focus more on quality, not just profit for the blackholes, I mean shareholders. I don't use suse, but I'm very happy this is happening.

Recommendations for a Linux system backup tool in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Are you serious? It actually does that? So you have a usb stick with the live environment, then you boot into that environment, then from there you install borg, plug in the other stick that has the back then just restore onto the internal drive and restart? Is that correct?

Is it worth switching to BTRFS for the average user? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I actually know about this one. I thought it was the coolest shit ever. I'm seriously gonna look into it. I have always respected suse, but just never gave it a chance

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Where is zsh supposed to be? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all I have a quick question. Is it better for my zsh shell to be in /usr/bin/zsh or /bin/zsh. I remember reading that one of them would mess up the whole system since zsh is not posix compliant. I believe that szh shouldn't be set as the root shell. I now have it in /usr/bin/zsh, is that good? So now when I drop into a root shell I don't get they autocompletion feature that zsh has. I'd also lose that fancy theme. Does that mean my root shell is still bash? Thanks

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Pika vs Timeshift vs Deja Dup...etc (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, Just wanted to know, do these all work the same? I have ext4, so no snapshots on timeshift, but I'm using it now to back up to an external SD card. I have heard good things about Pika and dejadup, and had some mishaps with timeshift. So, my question is, do they all do the same thing? Like, if I messed up something, can I use any of these apps to restore to a previous point where the system was working? And what the best backup app in your opinion?

Edit: Basically, I'm looking for a backup app that I can use to do both, backup my whole system and restore to a working state if I borked something. Just like timeshift, but timeshift scares me, because I've had some issues with it where the whole system just got messed up, and I had to reinstall (all ext4 btw) Thanks in advance

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btrfs and nvme (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, recently, I bought an nvme ssd to replace the very old ssd I have on my laptop. I don't know what the non-nvme is called. It shows as "sda" on the system. Anyway, doubled the storage. The new drive is an nvme WD black SN770. I have the same one running just fine on an optiplex dell mini running endeavourOS. Zero issues. I like to separate home and root partitions and have btrfs on root for snapshots. So, thinking it would behave the same on the laptop, I put the new drive in the laptop and did the same partitioning. Installed Fedora this time, since I like gnome on the laptop and plasma on desktop. Everything went fine. Laptop was responsive and all until I was done and closed the lid. Came back a while later to use it again, black screen and nothing revives it. No key combo or anything works except holding down the power button to shut it off. This kept happening every single time I closed and opened the lid after a while. Thought it might be the distro/DE. Removed fedora and slapped endeavourOS with plasma on it. Same shit happens now. Black screen every time I open the lid after a suspend. So, I decided fuck it, let me juse use ext4 since it happens on every distro. Removed btrfs and used ext4 on all partions, and now this issue never happens. Not even once. Is this a known issue with btrfs and nvmes? Do they not like each other? Just wanted to share this little dilemma I had to deal with the last couple of days.