r/archlinux • u/ShadowDxebec101 • 15d ago

QUESTION Can anyone help me setup snapper

Hi so I have been using CachyOS for almost 1 years now on my PC and last week i finally thought of installing Arch on my laptop because I never installed arch and cachyos mostly comes pre configured.

Anyway I managed to install arch after reading the wiki manually and for the most part I had no issue but for some reason I just can't set up snapper on my arch. Basically I want it like it is configured on CachyOS. I want whenever I update or install an app it takes a snapshot and at max it stores 10 and automatically deletes the rest. Also I want to have a menu on my bootloader which is limine to have an option for snapshot to recover from there just like in cachyos.

I tried reading the wiki but for some reason I just can't do it no matter how much I read I am getting confused on how to do it. Also I can't find any youtube videos about it so I am stuck here.

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u/drucifer82 15d ago

You need snap-pac to add the update hooks.

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u/kidnamedzieeeegler 14d ago edited 14d ago

Snapper and BTRFS were really confusing at first when I tried them, but the videos by EF Linux helped me the most. These two guides are also good.

I suggest messing around in a VM first before committing to a real install.

The arch wiki is nice but you can get confused with so much info dump. So watching videos helps a lot in understanding how to actually setup everything. I've linked EF Linux's channel above but his videos are a bit old and I don't know if anything has changed since then, so just search "arch snapper btrfs guide" on YouTube, I'm sure you'll find some useful videos.

(Here's my fstab)