u/kurtlawrence92

Hello!

I am planning on switching my home server OS to opensuse. I already have a zfs pool for the main storage, the OS drive will be separate. My question is how I can leverage btrfs snapshots (with snapper?) to rebuild the OS in case of drive failure.

I was thinking that the snapshots could live in the zfs pool, both of the 'root' OS snapshots and the home snapshots for user config.

I am unsure how this works, if it is at all feasible, and what would the restore procedure be like if possible. Also open to other suggestions, the key is to be able to recover the OS on drive failure (with mirroring)