Can I change the settings of Snapper to suit my need?

[Disil]

After few months of using SpiralLinux and constantly installing/uninstalling software, I found that Snapper is too intrusive by having them creating snapshot everytime I do apt operations. Can I change it to make it not automatic like that, and instead take snapshot every day/week/month instead?

Also OOT but whenever I install/uninstall something, at the end of the apt terminal output there is always a text that says "Illegal snapshot." I wonder what that means.

[geckolinux]

Hi there,

I found that Snapper is too intrusive by having them creating snapshot everytime I do apt operations. Can I change it to make it not automatic like that

Yes, in /etc/default/snapper you can set DISABLE_APT_SNAPSHOT="yes" .

and instead take snapshot every day/week/month instead?

You could setup a manual cron job to run snapper -c root create -c number or snapper -c root create -c timeline. If you want the automatic cleanup algorithm that is shown in Snapper GUI to maintain a fixed number of snapshots then use -c number , or if you want it to retain X number of daily/monthly/weekly snapshots you could use -c timeline .

Also OOT but whenever I install/uninstall something, at the end of the apt terminal output there is always a text that says "Illegal snapshot."

Not sure about this one, you could ask on a more technical forum.

[Disil]

Could I disable this configuration from Snapper and use the one provided by Timeshift instead??

[geckolinux]

Hmm, no, Timeshift won't work with that subvolume layout.