Any other btrfs tools that complement yabsnap?

[rieje]

New to btrfs in general, trying to get a better picture of other ways that complement yabsnap for a comprehensive btrfs solution. I see btrbk as a popular tool but not mentioned in this repo--can yabsnap be considered a replacement or does it offer anything different? E.g. I see that btrbk mentions remote backup and yabsnap doesn't, but there's nothing about yabsnap that can't do what btrbk advertises for this feature?

[hirak99]

Interesting.
I have not used it myself, but based on the readme, btrbk supports snapshots and remote backups, while yabsnap is permanently meant for scheduling local (in-volume) snapshots and rollbacks.

Another goal for yabsnap was to have the code to be safe but accessible, and it was born because it turned out implementing a popularly requested feature in snapper was difficult or time consuming. (This is a general comment on yabsnap history, not about btrbk.)

Technically you can use the post_transaction_scripts (see example config) to run a backup script, but you'll need to write your own script with btrfs send /source/vol | btrfs receive /dest/vol for this.

But if remote backup is in your scope, btrbk might manage this with config, and it could be a better alternative for you.

It should definitely be added in the list of alternatives here, along with remote backup as a feature. I'll do it after I read a bit more about it. If you do use it, please let us know which features it has.