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Automated snapshots with Btrfs Sun, Oct 1, 2023 02:00 CEST

Install snapper pacman -S snapper Make sure to have followed snapper’s recommendations regarding Btrfs subvolumes layout. Note that snapper creates a subvolume for snapshots at /.snapshots but with an unnecessary parent dependency on @. To allow snapper to go through the configuration step, make sure you have unmounted any subvolume (or other) mounted at /.snaphosts and deleted any corresponding directory. umount /.snapshots rm -r /.snapshots Create configuration for the root subvolume

Backup LUKS header Thu, Oct 10, 2019 17:15 CEST

LUKS partitions cannot be recovered once the header is lost.