[sles-beta] SLES 12 x86_64 RC1 snapper does not do snapshots as configured

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Thu, Aug 07, urs.frey at post.ch wrote:

> Hi
> When having SLES12 x86_64 RC1 installed using btrfs snapper should do hourly snapshots as configured under /etc/snapper/configs/root, right?

Not for the root partition.

> Why this?

The root partition is normally not changed that often, so
all this empty snapshots will fill up your harddisk and
makes it pretty hard to find the right snapshot later/to
not delete the only important snapshot during cleanup.
We got a lot of complains about this, thus we changed the
default.

> There is nothing in the Changelog-Beta10-RC1.
> 
> Without automated snapshots btrfs is not working for me.

?
If you make changes to the system with YaST or zypper, you
should still get a new snapshot. Only cron will not kill your
filesystem with a huge amount of empty snapshots.

Else you can still enable it again, nobody prevents you from
doing so.

  Thorsten

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