btrbk-pac
By KodyVB
btrbk
Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes (by digint)
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btrbk-pac
Posts with mentions or reviews of btrbk-pac.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-26.
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How long do you keep your backups? What software do you use
I also use btrfs, but I use btrbk to manage the snapshots. I use some scripts I made called btrbk-pac so that every time I use pacman, I get snapshots before and after the transaction, logging the affected packages in a file (tbh I'm not super proud of the solution, and started making a cleaner Rust version some months ago which uses yaml for configs, but never got around to finishing it). That's for the stuff under /, while I just have a cronjob take care of hourly snapshots for /home.
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Does anyone have a Breeze-gtk theme without the circle drawn around the close button?
I just realized that suddenly, gtk apps are following that rule. I looked back through my previous pacman commands (I created some scripts that log the affected packages when I use btrbk to snapshot through pacman hooks) and found that I upgraded the following on the night of the 30th: kdecoration breeze breeze-gtk kde-gtk-config along with a bunch of other KDE programs, so I think that update might have fixed it.
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I feel like an idiot.
Btrbk and the pacman scripts I wrote for it automate the creation and maintenance of snapshots for me, which is most of the the interaction you'll need with snapshots. And then when it comes to actually accessing them, just copying individual files/directories is what's done the vast majority of the time.
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A btrbk logging script and hooks for Arch's pacman
After adding all the stuff for SSH and feeling kind of gross about it (this is the original and this is after stapling together SSH stuff), I've kind of been thinking that if I add too much more complexity to this project that I might be better off just transferring it all over to Python or something else. Shell scripting isn't much fun when going much further than 100 lines, lol.
btrbk
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I accidentally programmed my server to back up all files... even backups
That's still easier using snapshots and something like btrbk. Snapshot the directory at start, prune if there are too many snapshots (or snapshots get too old).
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Ur best backup software
I'm on Arch, but you might still find it useful: Btrfs snapshots Arch Wiki - Incremental backup to external drive GitHub - btrbk
- Deduplication how to?
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Fast and comprehensive system backup. Can Linux software do it?
the smoothest backup tool i have seen for Linux is btrbk works real nice and is customizable for almost all use-cases BTRFS rocks :)
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Trying to understand the real impact of not having ECC
I recommend redundancy and regular verification is you want to insure your data against corruption. If you do that, you can forget about things like ECC. My setup is a NUC server running Ubuntu with a USB3-connected storage drive running BTRFS. I use btrbk to auto-snapshot and auto-replicate via incremental sends to my BTRFS backup drive, and RotKraken to track integrity of the data with a monthly verification run so that I notice corruption in time to correct it.
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BTRFS snapshots and btrbk as a backup solution
In pondering my backup strategy, I was wondering if I could use BTRFS snapshots and a backup tool like btrbk, which is a nice integrated snapshot/backup solution I've used happily on desktop Linux. BTRFS needs subvolumes for snapshots, so I couldn't backup the host itself (which wasn't installed with a / subvolume like other distributions I've used), but it could snapshot the VMs and containers, which have their own individual subvolumes. Then btrbk can send that snapshot in an incremental fashion to external storage.
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btrbk: subvolume has no UUID error
I then installed btrbk and tried to follow the instructions to create snapshots of root and home on the SSD and then send/receive those to the HDD. I mainly used https://github.com/digint/btrbk and https://mutschler.dev/linux/fedora-btrfs-35/, but I don't use luks.
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The various scripts I use to back up my home computers using SSH and rsync
For anyone using btrfs on their system, I heartily recommend btrbk, which has served me very well for making incremental backups with a customizable retention period: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
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incremental snapshot backup tool: which one should i go for?
btrbk is the best solution I know.
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how do you Backup your system?
I use BTRBK to make and copy the BTRFS snapshots to my HDD. I schedule it to run every 3 hours using a Sytemd unit file through my own script to avoid running the backup at inconvenient moments: