Hi everyone. I have been using Leap 16 for just over 6 months, and I must say that I have enjoyed the experience. The reliability is fantastic and my laptop runs so cool - never hear the fan running! I have my Laptop dual booting Windows & Leap, and I hardly use Windows - except when I need something very specific. I recently reinstalled my installation because I did make one mistake when I did my original installation - I used XFS, and I realised I should have used BTRFS instead for the snapshots. I will be using Leap for a very long time, and I must say thank you to all the maintainers of openSUSE, I owe you a debt of gratitude. I have looked at other distros and I still prefer the way SUSE does things!
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Q: “What” OS were you using before you installed Leap 16?
For me, BTRFS for the / partition … XFS for /home. That way, if something catastrophic happens on /, the /home should not be affected. I do backups for the XFS /home … but I don’t bother with backing up /.
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timeshift is a very easy way to backup system that is w/o btrfs. I’ve done full restore dozens of times with no errors.
I was using Opensuse with XFS only. I had Windows originally installed on my laptop, it is still there. Interesting your approach with BTRFS and XFS.
I had Timeshift on and when I did try to restore, it did not go well. I had issues after one update - and I read up about BTRFS and thought it sounded better.
Having /home on a separate partition is not more secure. Timeshift on non-btrfs filesystems is just as good as any other rsync based backup tool. It does not do filesystem snapshots. On btrfs filesystems it can do that, but you will not have the support that snapper has on openSUSE/SUSE.
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@cian73 , please elaborate on what problems you had with timeshift snapshot. I have restored system from timeshift snapshot probably 20+ times with no issues. One restore had 1.2 million commands and there was no detectable issues.
I was having a terrible time with update from leap 15.6 to 16.0 because of things I needed to preserve. I eventually abandoned leap 16 and settled in on tumbleweed after another set of updates and reinstalls with timeshift. Hence all the restores.
tom kosvic