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Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications
http://snapper.io/
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Snapper and btrbk? #924

Open 86ul opened 1 month ago

86ul commented 1 month ago

Is it an (good) idea to work with both Snapper, and BTRBK? This way, I can use the Snapper snapshots to compare and restore on disk, while using the BTRBK snapshots to both backup with send/receive to, and rollback from an external disk...

aschnell commented 1 month ago

btrbk and btrbk cannot use the snapshots created by snapper. So you will have to use both tools to create snapshots which look expensive. But apart from that it should work.

Also see https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper/issues/368 and https://github.com/digint/btrbk/issues/456.

I leave the question open for others to comment.

86ul commented 1 month ago

Thanks for the response. Those two issues you mentioned made me think if I could use both just side by side. Although there will be more overhead load, I will give these two apps a try together; unless some else advice strongly to do otherwise.

Just to make clear and as I have mentioned already above, I will use Snapper for Snapper snapshots, and BTRBK for BTRBK snapshots.

In case this issue is still open, when I have tried these two apps together for some time, I will report my findings here too.