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  • Might be a SAS driver issue. Have you checked if the drives show up on a live distro, something more current, like let’s say Void or anything that has a 6.x kernel?

    I’ve had issues like this with older Marvel SCSI controllers, some of them don’t have open source drivers for Linux, and the ones provided by the manufacturer (if there are any) are so old that you’d have to be runnig kernel 2.x in order for them to work. I just gave up in the end, disabled the SCSI controller in BIOS and just used the rigs on IDE/SATA.








  • Lemmy could do with some form of user data download option so you can at least get a list of the communities you’ve subscribed to and the posts you’ve written and saved

    That is something that is planned, just not being worked on currently. This thing was barely usable when the reddit thing happened, the platform was far from ready for the influx of users it received.

    User migration could be made easier. At least being able to upload a list of communities to subscribe to.

    That is also something that is planned, but not currently being worked on. Like migrating your whole profile, including posts, to another instance.

    That being said, there is a tool that will export almost all (as far as I can tell, the profile pic is the only thing it doesn’t export) of your settings and communities from your profile in a file and then you can import them on another account.

    !plugins@sh.itjust.works

    And the big one … the fediverse doesn’t enable you to own your data and profile in anyway unless you self host … at some point down the road, it would be good if this could be addressed.

    Also on the backburner. It’s planned, just currently not a priority.






  • Nah, I got it set up on a P4 with a 20GB drive, takes about 2 or 3GB. As time progresses, older snapshots get deleted automatically by Timeshift 😉. So, say you got 4 daily set up, 4 weekly and 2 montly. Only the last 4 daily, 4 weekly and 2 monthly stay, the rest are deleted as new snapshots are created. That’s the while point of having this setup, so you can go back in time, but you decide how long.


  • Yep, you’re doing it right… or at least that’s how I do it as well, lol 😂.

    A snapshot is exactly that, a snapshot. It doesn’t take forever to create, like with rsync, it litelarly takes a second, even on very old rigs (775 or even older). It’s basically a snapshot of what the current drive holds. If a file changes (gets added, removed, whatever), the snapshot grows cuz it needs to hold the older versions of the files (the ones saved at the time of the snapshot).

    This might not be exactly how snapshots work in BTRFS, but this is what I gathered from using it with snapshots enabled. The older the snapshot, the larger the size of the snapshot (takes way more room cuz more changes have occured).

    Also, it’s wise to set up daily, weekly and monthly snapshots. I have it set up to hold 5 or 6 (can’t really remember now) daily snapshots, 4 weekly and 2 montly. So basically, I can go back in time for a max of 2 months. I was thinking or raising the montly snapshots to 3 or 4, but I’m still not sure. Still, I wouldn’t go lower than 2.