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authorAlan Aversa <aversa@email.arizona.edu>2016-07-27 20:48:52 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-07-30 06:03:58 +0700
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+btrbk is a backup tool for btrfs subvolumes, taking advantage of btrfs specific capabilities
+to create atomic snapshots and transfer them incrementally to your backup locations.
+
+The source and target locations are specified in a config file, which allows to easily configure
+simple scenarios like "laptop with locally attached backup disks", as well as more complex ones,
+e.g. "server receiving backups from several hosts via ssh, with different retention policy".
+
+Key Features:
+
+* Atomic snapshots
+* Incremental backups
+* Configurable retention policy
+* Backups to multiple destinations
+* Transfer via ssh
+* Resume of backups (if backup target was not reachable for a while)
+* Encrypted backups to non-btrfs destinations
+* Wildcard subvolumes (useful for docker and lxc containers)
+* Transaction log
+* Comprehensive list and statistics output
+* Resolve and trace btrfs parent-child and received-from relationships
+* Display file changes between two backups
+
+btrbk is designed to run as a cron job for triggering periodic snapshots and backups, as well
+as from the command line (e.g. for instantly creating additional snapshots).