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ElkarBackup alt Snapper

Btrfs snapshot management tool with rollback

Backup & Recovery ★ 1.2k stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

Snapper is a tool for managing filesystem snapshots on Btrfs and LVM thin volumes. It can create automatic timeline snapshots and roll back the system to a previous state.

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Key features

  • Automatic timeline snapshots
  • Btrfs and LVM support
  • System rollback

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Active community (1.2k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C++
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

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