digint/btrbk
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Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-06-10 · latest 2025-12-07
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While I don't code in perl myself, one modern tool I use a lot is written in perl: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
comment by Deeg9rie9usi · 2025-12-07 · in Perl's decline was cultural -
Yes, it's worth having ~hourly snapshots of your machine, using something like: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
comment by foxheadman · 2025-11-30 · in NixOS 25.11 released -
…saved on btrfs disks on each server, then btrbk[1] for pulling backups to remote storage. [1] https://github.com/digint/btrbk
comment by nameequalsmain · 2024-09-28 · in Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs? -
…which has served me very well for making incremental backups with a customizable retention period: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
comment by armoredkitten · 2022-12-09 · in The various scripts I use to back up my home computers using SSH and rsync -
…nice. (rsnapshot uses hardlinks.) That made me look for something btrfs based, and here's this https://github.com/digint/btrbk seems useful (send btrfs snapshots to a remote somewhere, also can be encrypted), could be useful for small…
comment by pas · 2018-04-20 · in Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017) -
…meaning to look into this project in more detail which leverages btrfs snapshots and send/receive. https://github.com/digint/btrbk
comment by cmurf · 2017-07-07 · in Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system? -
…hub.com/csirac2/snazzer/blob/master/doc/snazzer-m... [3] https://github.com/masc3d/btrfs-sxbackup [4] https://github.com/digint/btrbk [5] https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/ [6] https://github.com/lordsutch/btrfs-backup [7]…
comment by csirac2 · 2015-06-10 · in Comparison of Attic vs. Bup vs. Obnam