Re: Anyone tried out btrbk yet?

[Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:46:24PM +0200, Axel Burri wrote:
> On 2015-07-09 14:26, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 
> > Well I may try it for one of my BTRFS volumes in addition to the rsync 
> > backup for now. I would like to give all options on command line, but well, 
> > maybe it can completely replace my current script if I put everything in its 
> > configuration.
> 
> One reason why btrbk exists is that I wanted to have all my backups
> configured in a config file. I use btrbk to backup several hosts to
> several backup locations (around 20 subvolumes), which made setting
> everything up with command-line options very cumbersome.
> 
> For simpler setups you might be better off with command-line based tools
> (e.g. Marcs "btrfs-subvolume-backup", which I like for it's smallness).

I just had another look at btrbk, and it's obviously a lot more
featureful. It's almost 10 times bigger in lines of code than
btrfs-subvolume-backup :)

Anyway, to others, if you're happy using a tool that just does that you
need without having to dig into it and without you caring how btrfs
send/receive, works, btrbk looks like the better choice.

If you'd like something short-ish to look at and see how it works and/or
want something simple in shell you can modify quickly, btrfs-subvolume-backup
might be better for you.

Hope that helps others.

Marc
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