snapper
Btrfs snapshot management tool with rollback
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.
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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