Axel Burri

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> Beside any recommendation for or against mbuffer (you said it's another point of failure), is it recommended to have both stream_buffer and stream_buffer_remote when using volume ssh://...? Added some...

Because btrbk is stateless, it does not know if a snapshot is a "hourly" or "daily" snapshot, so setting `24h+` is not possible. I would go for something like `snapshot_preserve_min...

I was not able to reproduce this, tried a couple of versions down to v0.27.2. I guess there must be some other reason why the second-target is not sent, maybe...

The "subvolume" config line must be a regular (read-write) subvolume, as btrbk will make a snapshot of it, which then will be sent to the target. This generally makes no...

Note: Added `btrbk archive --raw` option, which was quite simple: 3e409037202ac31ed664e5f53c7bd9e9f0c72dea

> The only difference between the archive and the backup is that the archive does 1 copy as-is while the backup checks for changes and only do incremental correct? -...

> Is possible to use btrbk to have local time-machine style snapshots and also push them to an external drive automatically when available? Yes, you can e.g. add a script...

Sounds reasonable. I have some similar changes in mind regarding the config, e.g. "target templates" specifying a host along with retention policy. I think a better wording for what you...

For the subvolumes that are already created, try `btrbk extents diff`. If no extents differ, the subvolumes should be identical.

> Does btrbk support sending backups to an arbitrary REST interface? No, this is neither implemented nor planned. If you want to push "target raw" backups to your amazon s3...