Hey,
I am planning to implement authenticated boot inspired from Pid Eins’ blog. I’ll be using pam mount for /home/user. I need to check integrity of all partitions.
I have been using luks+ext4 till now. I am hesistant hesitant to switch to zfs/btrfs, afraid I might fuck up.
A while back I accidently purged ‘/’ trying out timeshift which was my fault.
Should I use zfs/btrfs for /home/user? As for root, I’m considering luks+(zfs/btrfs) to be restorable to blank state.
I’ve been using luks on btrfs for a couple years now with little issue. I’m not using the RAID features of BTRFS though. I’m using it for subvolumes and snapshots.
I personally like Timeshift as my snapshot utility simply because I kinda grok both its GUI and CLI interfaces. It’s saved my bacon a few times over. I like rolling release-type distros, so it handles the occasional bad update gracefully. I’ve heard folks say good things about Snapper, though.
Do you use timeshift to back up data, or only system configuration?
system config and system data are in my root subvolume, home directory, dotfiles, and some data that I want to be accessed at SSD speed are in my home subvolume. This all gets timeshift backup/snapshots. The rest of my data is located on spinning platter sata drives, which is backed up regularly using a different method (weekly rsync job that copies to a cold backup drive.)
I won’t be using RAID features as of now, and timeshift isn’t an issue for me. just an example of my fuckup 😅
What was the issue?
The only issues I’ve had are a) learning curve using BTRFS and its associated utilities and b) difficulty differentiating snapshots. I learned REAL DAMN QUICK to give those guys descriptive comments like ‘snapshot before 2023-12-16 update’.