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Plans for BTRFS snapshot implementation of backintime?

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Do you have plans for re-implementing backintime to use BTRFS snapshots instead of hard links?

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

No, BIT does must not depends (if possible) of the file-system.

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Dan

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Tom Metro (tmetro+ubuntu) said : 		#2

A BiT for BTRFS snapshots would have both different internals and configuration options. It wouldn't just be swapping out a different back-end storage mechanism.

However, a version of BiT that acts as a GUI wrapper for BTRFS snapshots would make sense, if such a tool doesn't already exists. If it doesn't, eventually someone will likely create one.

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#3

I think it's better to have snapshots on another drive (removable or remote) just in case the main drive crash.

Regards,
Dan

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