Installing Kali Linux with snapshotting functionality is very similar to a standard installation except that we install it with btrfs as file system.Īfter the installation, we will install some tools and create a default configuration for snapper. Snapper-gui by Ricardo Vieira is another great tool we use to make our lifes easier. To top things off, we added grub-btrfs by Antynea to automatically add a list of snapshots to the grub boot menu. This neat little feature allows to easily rollback a system after a botched upgrade. Snapper transparently hooks into the apt workflow and automatically creates snapshots before and after any apt operation. The snapshotting strategy of this walk-through centres around a tool called “snapper” from our friends over at SUSE. Virtualization solutions such as VMware and VirtualBox provide their own snapshotting functionality and using btrfs in those environments is not really required.
In particular, the snapshot support is what makes btrfs attractive for Kali installations on bare metal. Full recovery from an unbootable systemītrfs is a modern Copy on Write (CoW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features such as pooling, snapshots, checksums, and integrated multi-device spanning.You can even boot into any of your saved snapshots via the boot menu and easily rollback to a previous system state: Well, you better read on, because now you can!Īll it takes is to install Kali Linux version 2022.1 or newer with btrfs as file system and to enable snapshotting after installation. Have you ever wished you could travel back in time after deleting that all important customer report or installing a broken driver just before heading into the board meeting?
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