Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 6 months agoWhat is your experience with btrfs snapshots?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1228arrow-down16
arrow-up1222arrow-down1imageWhat is your experience with btrfs snapshots?lemmy.worldWaffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareastrsk@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoI want to setup snapshots but I don’t really understand how to do that properly yet in a way that lets me shoot the snapshots over to my smb storage like Apple’s Time Machine does.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 months agoA snapshot isn’t a backup so you can’t move it outside of the drive. It is literally just a change log.
minus-squarerenzev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months ago| A snapshot isn’t a backup so you can’t move it outside of the drive You can tho https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Send/receive
I want to setup snapshots but I don’t really understand how to do that properly yet in a way that lets me shoot the snapshots over to my smb storage like Apple’s Time Machine does.
A snapshot isn’t a backup so you can’t move it outside of the drive. It is literally just a change log.
| A snapshot isn’t a backup so you can’t move it outside of the drive
You can tho https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Send/receive
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