oxplot/rsyncbtrfs — Issue #1: Backup functionality - managing snapshots automatically
Author: nasserma
Created: 2011-10-29 18:03:37+00:00
State: open

Hello:
This is more of a feature request than an issue, but in order to use this script on a long-term basis it would make sense to be able to specify the intervals over which a user wants to save snapshots. If I am running this script weekly, at some point I am going to want to remove old snapshots, else my disk will fill up.
I would be interested in having this functionality implemented. I have been using a relatively complicated shell script that uses the "cp -a" option for incremental backups. BTRFS is more appealing because of compression and the snapshot formalism. Unfortunately I am not very good with bash, so I cannot implement this myself.

Nasser