Russell Coker posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:49:40 +1000 as excerpted: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:25:09 Duncan wrote: >> properly. And if you do automated snapshots, use a good thinning >> script to thin them down so you're well under 500. (I've posted figures >> where even starting with per-minute snapshots, thinning down to 10 >> minute, then to half hour within the day, then to say 4/day after two >> days, 1/day after a week, one a week after four weeks, one every 13 >> weeks aka quarterly after say six months, and clearing them all and >> relying on off- >> machine backups after a year or 18 months, runs only 250-ish or so, >> under 300.) > > What scripts are people using for this?
I don't do much with snapshots here, and definitely don't do auto- snapshotting, but snapper's a popular one, there's Marc Merlin's script, and there's several other related links I've not looked closely at on the wiki, as well. The use-cases page has a section on time-machine snapshots, with several links including snapper: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UseCases#How_can_I_use_btrfs_for_backups.2Ftime-machine.3F I don't see Marc Merlin's script linked there, but it's linked from the FAQ, snapshot example section: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#snapshot_example (Someone with a wiki login could probably add Marc's script to the use- cases list, and then reword the FAQ entry appropriately and point it to the use-cases discussion instead of just linking Marc's script.) -- 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
