snap-sync
Use snapper snapshots to backup to external drive (by baod-rate)
btrfs
WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows (by maharmstone)
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| 15 | 220 | |
| 129 | 5,280 | |
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| 0.0 | 8.4 | |
| 3 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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snap-sync
Posts with mentions or reviews of snap-sync.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-25.
- BorgBackup 1.2.3 released
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Incremental backup of snapper to external drive
- https://github.com/qubidt/snap-sync
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Question about snapper
You might be interested in snap-sync. It is a bash script which accomplishes btrfs backups using snapper under the hood. So no need to use btrbk (but you get all the same functionality).
- What's a good way to backup a system running btrfs and snapper?
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Backup strategy
I've been using snapper and snap-sync for automated snapshots and backups to an external drive. Recently, snap-sync is no longer maintained, and it may not be able to do some more things that I want to do, such as:
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How to replace snap-sync?
I was actively using snap-sync to back up my files to a local hard drive. Unfortunately, snap-sync will be retired soon.
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Reinstalled my F35 to BTRFS, looking for your thoughts and opinions for snapshot/backup solutions
I use snapper for snapshots and snap-sync for backing up said snapshots on an external drive.
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"Install once, update forever"?
Yeah, I use snapshots for backups using snap-sync, which is a convenience script around btrfs send. Personally I use it to back up onto an external HDD, but it can also do remote backups over SSH. I'm just not sure if remote backups are incremental or not.
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Let's talk about Btrfs.
On my laptop I make extensive use of openSUSE's snapper and the snap-sync script to sync to two external USB drives. Lastly, I wrote a script to clean/expire snapshots on the external volumes.
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Have some question before moving to Fedora, hoping you guys can help
Snapshots aren't proper backups by themselves; they don't protect you from disk failure or the entire filesystem somehow being corrupted. It is possible to use them as backups; personally I use a command-line script called snap-sync to do this. This has the advantage of retaining the incremental nature of snapshots (though the incrementality will be on your backup media, so the first snapshot of a 100GB filesystem you put on your backup drive will take up 100GB of space), plus it integrates nicely with Snapper which is the snapshot utility I use.
btrfs
Posts with mentions or reviews of btrfs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.
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WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
> I'd gladly throw my credit card at it
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs?tab=readme-ov-file#dona...
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Bug Hunting in Btrfs
Can this be used? I knew ReactOS would use it natively.
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
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And so it begins. Im debating on weather to go BTRFS or NTFS.
I loose out on BTRFS snapshotting and subvolumes then. And if you look at winbtrefs it’s more than a hobbiest project. It has quite active development progress constantly https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
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Software for syncing files between NTFS and Btrfs partitions.
I've installed the WinBtrfs driver on Windows, which supports read/write support for Btrfs partitions.
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Steam Deck dualboot. How to share storage?
Install WinBTRFS so Windows can read the file BTRFS file system.
- Is there ways to backup only modified files to a local drive?
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Best SSD file format to use between fedora and windows
I don’t know if that tool allows to write but this GitHub page https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs seems mature enough. I am still unsure to trust it because I could bork my SSD and files
- How will a micro sd card work on a dual booted steam deck?
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Uh oh. Used WinBtrfs to run a balance check on the partition with the Linux OS on it and now the drive is locked and it's booting into emergency mode
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs scroll down to mappings and that *should help with sharing things between both OSes.
- For Dual-Boot Steam Deck Users: Share a Single MicroSD card on both SteamOS & Windows 10/11 Guide
What are some alternatives?
When comparing snap-sync and btrfs you can also consider the following projects:
snapper - Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications
SteamNTFS - Using Steam and NTFS more securely
btrbk - Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
grub-btrfs - Include btrfs snapshots at boot options. (Grub menu)
Ext4Fsd - Ext4 file system driver for Windows
zfs - OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
ntfs-3g - NTFS-3G Safe Read/Write NTFS Driver
bees - Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs dedupe agent
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
linux-timemachine - Rsync-based OSX-like time machine for Linux, MacOS and BSD for atomic and resumable local and remote backups
ntfs2btrfs