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btrbk

Backup tool for Btrfs subvolume snapshots

Backup & Recovery ★ 2.1k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

btrbk is a backup tool for creating and managing snapshots of Btrfs subvolumes and replicating them to local or remote targets. It is designed for incremental, atomic backups driven by a simple configuration file.

Key features

  • Incremental Btrfs backups
  • Remote replication over SSH
  • Configurable retention
  • Atomic snapshots

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Active community (2.1k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Perl
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

Trade-offs

  • Btrfs only
  • No graphical interface

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