# snapper and ext4 - ready to use ?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/snapper-and-ext4-ready-to-use/34985>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snapper-and-ext4-ready-to-use/34985 "2020-05-07T16:11:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bernd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bernd](https://forums.suse.com/u/Bernd)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snapper-and-ext4-ready-to-use/34985/1 "2020-05-07T16:11:26Z")

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[{“insert”:"Hi,  
i’m running several boxes with SLES 12 SP4 and SP5. I just found out that snapper also creates snapshots with ext4.  
Does anyone use that feature ? Is it stable and reliable ?  
Thanks.  
  
Bernd  
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**Author:** ![gogalthorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@gogalthorp](https://forums.suse.com/u/gogalthorp)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snapper-and-ext4-ready-to-use/34985/2 "2020-05-08T00:14:16Z")

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[{“insert”:"Don’t know any that use it.  
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**Author:** ![David1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@David1](https://forums.suse.com/u/David1)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snapper-and-ext4-ready-to-use/34985/3 "2020-08-31T18:14:29Z")

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As I understand it, **snapper** is specific to **btrfs**. I’ve never used it in conjunction with **ext4**

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**Author:** ![voleg4u](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/49beb7/32.png) [@voleg4u](https://forums.suse.com/u/voleg4u)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/snapper-and-ext4-ready-to-use/34985/4 "2020-09-22T17:42:21Z")

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You can use LVM snapshots. Did that [this way](http://www.voleg.info/suse-upgrade.html "voleg.info/suse-upgrade.html")