User:Hfern/Drafts/btrbk

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. Having btrfs partitions is therefore a prerequisite to using using btrbk.

Installation
Btrbk is in portage.

Additional software
When btrbk is used to transfer backups to a central backup server some additional software may be required:
 * ssh is used to transfer backups to a remote server.
 * mbuffer can be used to speedup the communications. It would need to be installed on the backup server. It's package is not a dependency yet, see also.

Configuration
Btrbk installs a well documented sample configuration file at. Copy it, and edit is as follows:

Environment variables

 * VAR1
 * VAR2

Files

 * - Global (system wide) configuration file.
 * - Local (per user) configuration file.

External resources

 * (Link to external resources (outside the Wiki) using bullet points in this section. It is common for the information in this section to full sentences that are links.)