On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 3:37 AM Willi Mutschler <fed...@mutschler.eu> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just recently joined the Fedora train and am very excited about it. As I am > a developer of timeshift-autosnap and timeshift-autosnap-apt, I wanted to > have the same functionality in Fedora 33. The idea is that when one runs a > dnf update or upgrade command, timeshift should automatically create a btrfs > snapshot. So basyically the same functionality of zsys in Ubuntu with ZFS, > but with Timeshift. > The idea is, whether one likes it or not, Timeshift is quite popular in the > Linux user space (and gets mentions on the Linux podcasts all the time). > Having it work on Fedora with BTRFS would be quite an asset in my opinion, > and make btrfs more user-friendly (as users can see in a GUI that snapshots > happen instantenously). Anyways, Is there interest in the Fedora devel > community here or is the development actually going another direction? > > I am working on a fork of Timeshift (https://github.com/wmutschl/timeshift), > where currently I hardcoded the BTRFS subvolume layout of Fedora 33 into > Timeshift and it works as it should without renaming the subvolumes to @ and > @home (which is also possible). > Now the next steps (in my opinion or maybe someone has better ideas) would be > to: > 1. Make an interface inside Timeshift to set the names of the BTRFS > subvolumes and try to get it merged upstream. > 2. Adapt timeshift-autosnap (or timeshift-autosnap-apt) for dnf (e.g. create > a dnf plugin similar to the snapper plugin) that makes automatic snapshots > before any DNF operation. > 3. Add the autosnap functionality (of pacman, apt, and hopefully dnf) also > into Timeshift and get it merged upstream. > > Is that a feasible plan? Any feedback is very much appreciated!
This sounds very good! I don't particularly like the Ubuntu subvolume layout (which is a subset of the openSUSE subvolume layout), so having Timeshift adapted to support our layout (or even custom layouts in general) would make this much better. :) I expect that what you're trying to do should be feasible, especially since it's been done before with Snapper (which unfortunately lacks a GUI). -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
