Top 7 C Snapshot Projects

GlusterFS

19 4,478 6.4 C

Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes

Project mention: Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-06

https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/894
And apparently apart from modern coreutils using that, it is mostly gentoo users hitting the bugs in lseek.

criu

14 2,647 8.9 C

Checkpoint/Restore tool

Project mention: When "letting it crash" is not enough | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-07

Checkpoint/Restore I feel is a bigger concept than just saving state. At the zeroth level it's a system that can correctly stop and serialize a running process (as criu https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu has shown is a huge pain in the ass to still not be perfect) in a way that can initiated from within the process itself.
The 1st level more-work-but-easier way to do this is to build or use a heavily constrained VM/language you run from within your main application that doesn't allow for most of the hard problems to even exist.
I can't find any ready-made tools to do this that I wouldn't consider an endeavor.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
MooseFS

3 1,583 4.8 C

MooseFS – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System (Software-Defined Storage)

Project mention: Google Cloud Storage FUSE | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-02

swappy

21 899 3.3 C

A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

Project mention: MSPaint like tool for Linux | /r/linux | 2023-07-09

I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.

ipcam-view

0 399 5.1 C

MJPEG video streaming on Android
freeshooter

1 169 7.8 C

This is old-school tool for taking screenshots without bloatware features, simple as life, light as air.
Regshot-Advanced

1 62 3.2 C

This is a fork of Regshot (original found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/) with very enhanced functionality.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).