Re: cancel btrfs delete job

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Russell Coker posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:49:40 +1000 as excerpted:

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:25:09 Duncan wrote:
>> properly.  And if you do automated snapshots, use a good thinning
>> script to thin them down so you're well under 500. (I've posted figures
>> where even starting with per-minute snapshots, thinning down to 10
>> minute, then to half hour within the day, then to say 4/day after two
>> days, 1/day after a week, one a week after four weeks, one every 13
>> weeks aka quarterly after say six months, and clearing them all and
>> relying on off-
>> machine backups after a year or 18 months, runs only 250-ish or so,
>> under 300.)
> 
> What scripts are people using for this?

I don't do much with snapshots here, and definitely don't do auto-
snapshotting, but snapper's a popular one, there's Marc Merlin's script,
and there's several other related links I've not looked closely at on the
wiki, as well.

The use-cases page has a section on time-machine snapshots, with several
links including snapper:

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UseCases#How_can_I_use_btrfs_for_backups.2Ftime-machine.3F

I don't see Marc Merlin's script linked there, but it's linked from the
FAQ, snapshot example section:

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#snapshot_example

(Someone with a wiki login could probably add Marc's script to the use-
cases list, and then reword the FAQ entry appropriately and point it to
the use-cases discussion instead of just linking Marc's script.)

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