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November 23, 2017 12:27 am

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Advantages of Snapper and Rollback

The following article is part of a series of articles that provide tips and tricks for Linux newbies – or Desktop users that are not yet experienced with regard to certain topics. This series intends to complement the special edition #30 “Getting Started with Linux” based on openSUSE Leap, recently published by the Linux […]

Tags: BtrFS, File System, Getting Started with Linux, Leap 42.3, Linux Magazine, openSUSE, rollback, Snapper, snapshot, special edition

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Meike Chabowski

November 15, 2017 10:28 am

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Linux Magazine Special Edition “Getting Started with Linux” – and More!!

We who live in a Linux world know for "a while" now that Linux is “the better Windows”. But still – there are people out there who somehow do not dare to touch Linux in their private environment, on their laptops and desktops. Some of them – for whatever reason – are still […]

Tags: Command Line, data backup, desktop, digiKam, Firefox, gaming, Getting Started with Linux, GIMP, Installation, Krita, Leap 42.3, LibreOffice, Linux games, Linux Magazine, Linux security, Multi Media, office suite, Okular, openSUSE, operating system, rollback, Snapper, system log, Tor, Wine, YaST

Categories: Expert Views, Technical Solutions

By: SUSE

October 17, 2016 8:10 am

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Managing configuration drift with Salt and Snapper

Recently SUSE announced its partnership with SaltStack. In this post series we will explore how SUSE is realizing the Software-defined Data Center vision through the Salt project. Introduction Many configuration management tools originate in the DevOps space and become immensely popular and while they do manage configuration, they are tailored towards deployment of new servers […]

Tags: Salt, saltstack, Snapper, Software-Defined Data Center

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

June 14, 2013 9:23 am

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Sieste – Siesta: Snap Before a Nap

After enjoying a rich Menu du jour with green snapper and vegetables, probably served with some white wine, you may want to get some rest. In France "Sieste", also known as "Siesta" in Italy and Spain, is a tradition that unfortunately is not common in other countries, such as Germany. It seems to […]

Tags: BtrFS, Configuration, Hibernate, Snapper, Suspend

Categories: Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

May 3, 2013 3:30 pm

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Menu du jour: Vivaneau vert sur lit de légumes au beurre et suprêmes de pamplemousse

Vivaneau vert... Called "Aprion virescens" in Latin, "Uku" in Micronesia, and "green jobfish" in English, "vivaneau vert" is a tasty table fish. It's also called "blue-green snapper," and thus shares its name and color with the other Snapper that is very familiar to the SUSE communities. Snapper is a […]

Tags: BtrFS, Configuration, Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM), Snapper

Categories: Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: jkalcic

March 2, 2012 2:31 pm

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An introduction to system snapshot and rollback with Snapper and BtrFS on SLES 11 SP2

With the release of Service Pack 2 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, the support to a new (better) file system and a new (snappy) tool have been introduced providing the ability to do system snapshots rollbacks, a very powerful and interesting feature. These are BtrFS and Snapper respectively. BtrFS Btrfs is a new copy-on-write […]

Tags: BtrFS, Linux Administration, Snapper

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions