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From: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: using snapshot for backup: best practise?
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:35:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250626193537.GA653726@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f36e47c9-f135-473c-b1f1-2fedaef8aa10@cobb.uk.net>

On Thu 2025-06-26 (13:41), Graham Cobb wrote:

> I do various sorts of backups but the main one built around snapshots
> uses btrbk. It doesn't solve the problem you mention below but it does
> reduce the problem to listing each subvolume once in the config file

btrbk does some sort of snapshot rotation?

For this I have already a perfect solution:

https://fex.belwue.de/linuxtools/snaprotate.html

But snapshots are not a backup.


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REF:<f36e47c9-f135-473c-b1f1-2fedaef8aa10@cobb.uk.net>

  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-26 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-26 11:43 using snapshot for backup: best practise? Ulli Horlacher
2025-06-26 12:41 ` Graham Cobb
2025-06-26 19:35   ` Ulli Horlacher [this message]
2025-06-29 22:50 ` Ulli Horlacher
2025-06-30 10:09 ` Mark Harmstone

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