I had really bad experiences last month using grub-btrfs and timeshift

Hello there ,i am a happy manjaro user for over 3 years now

lately i decided to switch from cinnamon to gnome mostly for wayland

i have done at least 4 fresh installs all ended in an unusable system after snapshots restore

i mean when i boot form a grub snapshot and after login i immediately use timeshift to restore the specific snapshot ,i reboot the system again but when i delete the specific snapshot the system breaks down completely

i believe timeshift restore doesnt work as expected and i remain in a snapshot

so is there a guide for manjaro on how to properly setup grub-btrfs and timeshift?

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Yes, there is, but for that, you will have to actually look for it. :roll_eyes:

Hint: Check the Tutorials section.

There is an alternative approach without timeshift:

yeah i know about that but i prefer timeshift if its possible

There was a bug with Timeshift’s restore if you used it while booting into a snapshot through grub-btrfs. I haven’t been able to reproduce it for almost 4-6 months?

There is not much to get it working through. If you installed Manjaro with a btrfs root filesystem. (Or converted to btrfs after.) It’s really just loading Timeshift and enabling the checkbox.

If you have these snapshots, and they are usable. You can also try restoring manually. Which is really just moving/renaming what your root volume points to. But it is a few CLI steps, and cleanup after, to get it back to Timeshift managing the snapshots again.

But to even start down that road we would need information such as:

lsblk -f
sudo btrfs sub list /

And which snapshot you wanted to restore.

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There Is also [HowTo] Manual rollback with btrfs
:footprints:

i just migrated to snapper and btrfs assistant, clean install of course

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