Looking for solution to faulty wiki pacman hook

carryingweight · 2022-11-08 03:43:08

I am trying to implement root snapshots on my ext4 on LVM system as a way to protect it during system upgrades. As I was struggling to backup boot at the same time I found this pacman hook on the Arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … _partition, however because it has PostTransaction set, it backs up boot after the system has upgraded, defeating the point of doing so. I tried PreTransaction thinking that would solve the issue, however it strangely only backs up certain parts of boot, everything but the initramfs .imgs and vmlinuz, which are all obviously needed in the backup. I am very new to Arch so I don't really have any idea how to fix this, and I wanted to bring to light the faulty hook on the wiki so that it can be changed.
Thank you in advance!

cfr · 2022-11-08 04:18:22

Have you tried running the rsync command by hand to see what it does? You could also add --log-file=<some-log-file> to get a record.

CarbonChauvinist · 2022-11-08 04:26:46

Second cfr's suggestion, specifically look in rsync's man page to see exactly what the `--delete` flag does.

cfr · 2022-11-08 04:44:04

For what it's worth, I tested the rsync command

rsync -a --delete /boot /tmp/.bootbackup

and it copied everything. --delete will just delete files in /tmp/.bootbackup which no longer exist in /boot.

seth · 2022-11-08 08:08:19

everything but the initramfs .imgs and vmlinuz

Those are removed during the installation by a hook and 95-bootbackup.hook fires at the very end.
Make it "10-bootbackup.hook"

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Looking for solution to faulty wiki pacman hook

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