I decided to bootstrap my new machine with btrfs as filesystem instead of ext4 LVM volumes. By following the excellent arch-wiki btrfs page I successfully crafted a base system with sub volumes, limited on size and snapshots enabled.

Everything went fine, installed all the other stuff I needed, pulled in my data and was ready to go.

Obviously on that very moment disaster happened.. Due to an unexpected interrupt the journal went corrupt. When trying to boot I got stuck right after decrypted the disk failing to mount my btrfs root volume.

Uncool, unpleasant, .. I almost got insane..

So back …

Some weeks ago I removed some files on my system I wish I didn't cause I still needed them.

Since I use some encrypted containers in dropbox I figured I could recover them from this nifty service. But in the logs of dropbox those files are obviously also encrypted. So that was a no go.

Therefore I started looking for backup solutions. The first one I tried was backintime, very easy to use, clean GUI interface but failed multiple times in restoring some files.

Looking for a more decent piece of software I found rsnapshot

And hell I like it …