Old man meme. It’s like saying “you need the command line for Linux!”
btrfs with pacman hook and i do backups semi reguralry (monthly + -)
what’s a snapshot, new kernel? lets roll!! almost 2k packages in
never really broke my arch tbh, its been serving flawlessly for 7 years now. its a decently recent thinkpad tho so stuff tends to just work and i have no gpu to bother about
Decade running arch on a laptop w encrypted drives, the only fails were from powerdevil.
Where are those people whose arch installs break after every second update? I don’t think I had a single problem with arch that I wasn’t responsible for. Hell, I had more problems with mint on my girlfriends PC than the arch machines that I’m running.
If you don’t count my 6 years with Manjarno, I’ve used Arch for ~7 years and only 3 times I had to fix something, 2 times because of Nvidia, once my fault. I had way more problems with Ubuntu in the past than Arch by the way. :)
This is still true but I find you are using bcachefs where every update is a death threat.
to be honest that setup is faster to arch-chroot if things go wrong.
Yeah but you do backups right? Right?
Nope. The stuff I need on my machine is all managed with git. I’d lose a few documents, but nothing I couldnt love without. Photos and important stuff are in a few different places, but not my main PC.
I dont actually but I can reinstall the system easily, and the user data is mapped to my nas drive.
Sure if I would delete all my files on the nas by mistake, I guess I lose them. But hasn’t happened.
Should actually back up my nas… Will get some external drive to do that I guess.
there are two types of computer users
- those who make backup
- those who never had a hard disk crash
- Everything is replaceable
- Assuming you do have a backup
I honestly can’t think of a thing I’d want to backup. Game saves, resumes, media. Its all replaceable and not worth backing up. I dont think I have a single “important” document or picture or anything.
Or those who can fix it.
what are the cheap ways of setting up automatic backups?
Rsync and cron
yes, but to what medium
Whatever’s around. Some writable filesystem.
I always back up anything that I feel is actually important, do people actually rely on the stability of their OS?
Not that Arch has caused me any issues whatsoever so far, going on 2 years now while very much a Linux noob.
Just get your snapper to run before/after any update and if you bork something, roll back. Easy peasy
That’s me right now. Just use deja dup on my home to my NAS.
I’m rawdogging my Debian Unstable install
I will simply reinstall and forsake my files if it shits the bed catastrophically
Meh, I keep everything important on a separate drive altogether.
Me with arch: what is timeshift? Time to updstr without backup, lol!
I wouldn’t call every 2 years “constantly”
You update arch every 2 years?
