noyannus

> Are you sure that btrfs subvolumes are picked up by rsync and land in Back In Time backups? Unfortunately not. I have hopped distro a while ago from one...

Snapper is a btrfs snapshotting tool, somewhat like Timeshift. It is not widely known; probably because [it originates from a German company](https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP5/html/SLES-all/cha-snapper.html) whose distros are underrepresented in the anglophone Linux...

Snapshots of `/home` partitions are [ not unheard of](https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial#Adding_/home_To_Snapper). A quick search for `application "~/.snapshots/"` finds no page with both. I think it is reasonably safe to exclude `~/.snapshots/`, but...

> I see no problem with excluding ~/.snapshots/ and /.snapshots/ by default. It is different from the initial proposal */.snapshots/*. Yeah, I had not thougth through the ramifications. Feel free...

btrfs has matured and gained stability in recent years. It's hard to find reliable data for and popularity. One data point, [this poll in the Endeavour forum](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/poll-which-file-system-in-2022-ext4-btrfs-xfs-zfs-f2fs-choose-1/26207) from 1 1/2...

Your're welcome. :-)

> I think our growing exclusion list demands for providing comments to the users (and us) in the GUI to explain why a pattern is in the exclusion list (eg....