Marc MERLIN posted on Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:57:33 -0700 as excerpted: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:42:24PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:33:24PM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> > However, best snapshot management practice does progressive snapshot >> > thinning, so you never have more than a few hundred snapshots to >> > manage at once. >> >> I'm happy to share my script with others if that helps: >> http://marc.merlins.org/linux/scripts/btrfs-snaps > > Now added to > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/post_2014-03-21_Btrfs-Tips_-How-To- Setup-Netapp-Style-Snapshots.html
Hmm... I hadn't actually looked that closely at scripted snapshotting. Now that I did, and see how easy it is to manage both snapshotting and thinning, I just might. But I recently switched to systemd, including replacing my crons with timer-unit scripts (which I setup like cron.hourly.d, daily.d, etc, but didn't have but those two to worry about, so didn't setup weekly or beyond). I've not actually unmerged cron yet, but I probably will one of these days. Anyway, I might well find myself setting up weekly/quarterly/ whatever too, with your script or something like it modified for systemd- timer usage. It'd give me an excuse to practice my unit-file setup skills some more. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
