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What is your experience with btrfs snapshots? (lemmy.world)
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[–] astrsk@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A snapshot isn't a backup so you can't move it outside of the drive. It is literally just a change log.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

| 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