Let's talk about Btrfs.

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  • snap-sync

    Use snapper snapshots to backup to external drive

  • 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.

  • btrbk

    Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes

  • So you don't know BTRBK : https://github.com/digint/btrbk

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  • snapper

    Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications

  • 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.

  • bees

    Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs dedupe agent

  • btrfs has a deduplication tool called bees , which beats ZFS deduplication in terms of speed and RAM requirements by simply ludicrous factors.

  • zfs

    OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD

  • Btrfs has had a bunch of issues in the past, but it's proven itself since then (been using it since kernel 5.4 without complaints), so I can't judge it for this. ALL linux filesystems have had data corrupting bugs within the last decade, even ZFS (a pretty severe one even https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/12724 )

  • browsh

    A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

  • https://www.brow.sh ;) jk

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